APPARATUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Things provided as means to some end.

2.
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.

3.
n.

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


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