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Definition of Apparatus
Apparatus

of Apparatus

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.

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

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Apparatus Quotations

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce

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.
Salvador Dali

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.
Wayne White

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
Atom Egoyan

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
Bill Scott

Apparatus Translations

apparatus in Afrikaans is toestel
apparatus in Danish is apparat
apparatus in Dutch is apparaat, hulpmiddelen, inrichting
apparatus in Finnish is koje
apparatus in Italian is meccanismo, equipaggio, apparecchio
apparatus in Latin is supellex supellectilis
apparatus in Norwegian is apparat
apparatus in Portuguese is instrumento, aparelho
apparatus in Spanish is aparato, utensilo, equipo
apparatus in Swedish is attiralj, apparat

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