0 If someone or something is instrumental in a process, plan, or system, that person or thing is one of the most important influences in causing it to happen: --
1 involving only musical instruments, and no singing: --
an instrumental piece/arrangement
instrumental music
2 a piece of music without singing --
3 performed with musical instruments only and not voices --
Instrumental rationality is assessed at the organismic level, not at the subpersonal level.
At the same time, the participants also described the joy of learning new ' instrumental ' knowledge and skills.
Furthermore, the analysis lacked the data required to disentangle the two effects by using, for instance, instrumental variable estimation techniques.
The receiving and giving items are current instrumental behaviours in the extended family involving money, time, companion help and advice.
How can we adequately test the reciprocity hypothesis with just a restricted set of measures of instrumental behaviour ?
In other words, the village based cooperative became instrumental to the intrusion of the state in the everyday life of the villagers.
Everything which comes into being has four generating causes: an e$cient, an instrumental, a material and a final cause, etc.
More instrumental help was received by parents from their children than vice versa.
