English Dictionary

instrumentality

/ɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtalɪti/

noun

(uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful. / (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.

The instrumentality of technology has revolutionized the way we communicate.

意味（1）

(uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.

意味（2）

(countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.

Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.

意味（3）

(countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.

He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.