apparatus

[Ap·pa*ratus]

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

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Things provided as means to some end.

Noun
equipment designed to serve a specific function

Noun
(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"

pl.
of Apparatus

n.
Things provided as means to some end.

n.
Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

n.
A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

Apparatus

Ap"pa*ratus , n.; pl. Apparatus, also rarely Apparatuses . [L., from apparare, apparatum, to prepare; ad + prepare to make ready.] 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism. 3. (Physiol.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

Things provided as means to some end.

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Usage Examples

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

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Other Usage Examples

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.