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noun

Apparatus n. (pl. apparatus, also rarely apparatuses)

Things provided as means to some end.

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.

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

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Etymology of 'Apparatus'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apparatus" Quotes from Famous Books

... there. O, not eavesdropping, not as a spy—that is out of my line; but purely, and luckily as it proves, by accident." And I told him all about it. I will not say that his jaw dropped, but his facial apparatus elongated. ...

— A Pessimist - In Theory and Practice • Robert Timsol

... long while there were rumors of broadcasts which blew out receiving apparatus, but nothing definite. Weird patterns appeared on screens high-pitched or deep-bass notes sounded—and the receiver went out of operation. After the ham operator in Osceola, nobody else got more than a second or two of the weird interference ...

— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... almost feel I cannot sing at all during the summer, as I do no practicing, and without vocalizes one cannot keep in trim. If I am asked to sing during vacation, I generally refuse. I tell them I cannot sing, for I do not practice. It takes me a little while after I return, to get the vocal apparatus in ...

— Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers • Harriette Brower

... the town to the prison, where he was placed in a cell by himself. The morning after his arrival the warder entered with a man carrying a basin and shaving apparatus. ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty

... years ago it was hardly possible for a man standing on one side of the street to make himself heard on the other, the acoustic properties of the atmosphere not being what they should be. To-day you can stand in the pulpit of your church, and by means of certain scientific apparatus make yourself heard in Boston, New Orleans, or San Francisco. Has this no bearing on the future? The time will come, Mr. Whitechoker, when your missionaries will be able to sit in their comfortable ...

— The Idiot • John Kendrick Bangs

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