['instrumәnt]
n. tool, means, instrument
【化】 instrument
【medical】 instrument, instrument
【经】 securities, document, contract
<— Oxford Modern English-Chinese Dictionary—>
n 1 implement or apparatus used in performing an action, esp for delicate or scientific work: a surgical instrument, eg a scalpel * an optical instrument, eg a microscope * instruments of torture 2 apparatus for producing musical sounds, eg a piano, violin, flute or drum: learning to play an instrument the instruments of the orchestra Musical instruments. 3 measuring device giving information about the operation of an engine, etc or in navigation (engines, etc. or used in navigation and aviation) measuring instruments, meters: a ship's instruments marine measuring instruments* [attrib as an attributive] an instrument panel Disk. =>Usage at machine See machine. 4 (a) ~ of sb/sth person used and controlled by another person, organization, etc, often without being aware of it of): We humans are merely the instruments of fate. We humans are merely the instruments of fate.(b) ~ of sth person or thing that brings sth about: The organization he had built up eventually became the instrument of his downfall. The organization he had built up eventually became the instrument of his downfall. . 5 ~ (of sth) formal (esp legal) document Formal (especially legal) document, document: The king signed the instrument of abdication. The king signed the abdication proclamation.
This word is rarely used as a verb, but it is also a noun in the dictionary. If it is used as a verb; it can also be seen from its root that it is a noun. It means to equip something with something, or to instruct something. For example, the following is to instruct the sender to limit the timer. And there is also its noun extension behind: instrumentation.
Is there a better way here.
commit 05b055e89121394058c75dc354e9a46e1e765579
Author: Francis Yan <francisyyan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Nov 27 23:07:13 2016 -0800
tcp: instrument tcp sender limits chronographs
This patch implements the skeleton of the TCP chronograph
instrumentation on sender side limits:
1) idle (unspec)
2) busy sending data other than 3-4 below
3) rwnd-limited
4) sndbuf-limited
The limits are enumerated 'tcp_chrono'. Since a connection in
theory can idle forever, we do not track the actual length of this
uninteresting idle period. For the rest we track how long the sender
spends in each limit. At any point during the life time of a
connection, the sender must be in one of the four states.