The phrase "as devices of reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing items or elements that serve to point to or indicate something else, often in academic or analytical contexts.
Example: "In literature, metaphors often function as devices of reference, linking abstract concepts to tangible images."
Alternatives: "as points of reference" or "as referential tools".
More generally, cases like these put pressure on the claim that names always function as devices of reference.
In fact, even the specter of such disunity should push us to ask: in virtue of what, if not the mechanism by which they 'hook onto' objects in the world, might referential terms all count as devices of reference?
Kaplan (1989a) claims that indexicals are devices of direct reference.
Such propositions — often referred to as Russellian propositions — are typically expressed by means of sentences involving names, pronouns, indexicals, or other devices of direct reference.
Because of the delay between dialysate formation and the actual measurements of the blood glucose level, we subtracted 5 min from the time stamp of the values of the CGM device; as such reference blood glucose values matched with the moment dialysate was formed.
The presence of the 'i(QDs) layer' modifies the EQE curve of reference 'n p' device as shown in Fig. 5.
Find a reference sound source for low E. In the absence of a tuner you could use one of the following devices as a reference to tune your low E string.
This also enables you to decorate a table with the electronic device as a reference!
An idea or frame of reference may be conveyed by texts through literary devices such as metaphor, imagery, symbols, graphs and through structuring devices such as tabulation, listing, footnotes and so on.
Both of these early devices were basically reference designs that were ahead of their time.
The standards, known by the reference code WC19, address crash-worthiness, head rests, back supports and securing devices of wheelchairs that are used as seats in vehicles.
