Difference between Instrument and Equipment

What is the difference between Instrument and Equipment?

Instrument as a noun is a device used to produce music. while Equipment as a noun is the act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

Instrument

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A device used to produce music. A measuring or displaying device. A tool, implement. A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will. A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To apply measuring devices. To devise, conceive, cook-up, plan.

Equipment

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc.; for carrying on business); horse equipment; infantry equipment; naval equipment; laboratory equipment.

We hope you now know whether to use Instrument or Equipment in your sentence.

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