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What (who) is Apparatus - definition
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Apparati; Apparatuses; Appartus; Apparatus (disambiguation)
apparatus
[?ap?'re?t?s]
¦ noun (plural apparatuses)
1. the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose.
2. a complex structure within an organization: the apparatus of government.
3. (also critical apparatus, apparatus criticus) a collection of notes accompanying a printed text.
Origin
C17: from L., from apparat-, apparare 'make ready for'.
Apparatus
·pl of Apparatus.
II. Apparatus ·noun Things provided as means to some end.
III. Apparatus ·noun A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.
IV. Apparatus ·noun 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.
apparatus
(apparatuses)
1.
The apparatus of an organization or system is its structure and method of operation.
For many years, the country had been buried under the apparatus of the regime.
N-VAR: with supp
2.
Apparatus is the equipment, such as tools and machines, which is used to do a particular job or activity.
One of the boys had to be rescued by firemen wearing breathing apparatus.
N-VAR: oft supp N
Wikipedia
Apparatus
Apparatus may refer to:
- Technical term for a body of the Soviet and post-Soviet governments (see Apparatchik)
- Machine
- Equipment
- Critical apparatus, the critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text
- "Apparatus" (song), a song by Bombus
- Apparatus (band), an electro-industrial group active during the nineties
- Apparatus (album), 1995 release by the band Apparatus
- Apparatus (journal), an academic journal on film
- In gymnastics, any of the individual events, or the equipment used in performing the event
- A piece of laboratory equipment
- in anatomy, a group of organs, see Apparatus (anatomy)
Examples of use of Apparatus
1. The new apparatus angered some local politicians.
2. The air–supplying apparatus keeps the temperature and humidity even in the hatching chamber, and the egg–rolling apparatus is movable.
3. Brick–making apparatus was hauled from India by elephants.
4. But French political institutions reinforce the party apparatus.
5. There is nothing worse than pluralism within a bureaucratic apparatus.