Laboratory instrument Any type of equipment, apparatus or device designed, constructed and refined to use well proven physical principles, relationships or technology to facilitate or enable the pursuit, acquisition, transduction and storage of repeatable, verifiable data, usually consisting of sets numerical measurements made upon otherwise unknown, unproven quantities, properties, phenomena, materials, forces or etc. Instrument Definition adapted from Wikipedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_instrument ODM2 Equipment Type Controlled Vocabulary ODM2 Working Group A vocabulary for describing types of equipment used for making observations. Examples include sensors, batteries, radios, dataloggers, samplers, etc.