Definition of Apparatus

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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

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

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman Cousins

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
Ivan Pavlov

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Ivan Pavlov

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
Al Franken

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin

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.
Ruth St. Denis

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch

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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