instrumented
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Definition
Equipped with measuring or recording devices to monitor physical conditions like temperature or pressure.
Etymology
Derived from the Latin word 'instrumentum,' meaning a tool or implement, which itself comes from 'instruere,' meaning to build, prepare, or furnish.
In the news
The article uses the word to explain that engineers cannot measure certain thruster line temperatures because they were not originally instrumented, meaning no sensors were installed to monitor those specific areas decades ago.
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
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