instrumented
- 1Simple past and past participle of instrument.
The team instrumented the engine before the endurance trial began.
The aircraft was heavily instrumented for its certification flights.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the simple past of an active clause (the team instrumented the engine) and the participle of passive and perfect ones (the aircraft was instrumented, has been instrumented). Because the verb is transitive, the participle also works before a noun, as in an instrumented engine or a heavily instrumented test rig. In its measuring sense it means fitted with gauges. The verb can also mean devised or plotted, or prepared for a musical instrument.
instrumented is a form of instrument
instrument, verb: To devise, plan, or conceive something. Full entry
- Forms
- instrumentinstruments he/she/itinstrumenting -ing forminstrumented past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- instrument → instrumented: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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