Definition of apparatus

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Apparatus (n.) Things provided as means to some end.

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Appliance :: Appliance (n.) The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances..
Hydrostat :: Hydrostat (n.) A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.
Life-preserver :: Life-preserver (n.) An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water..
Inductor :: Inductor (n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current..
Balance :: Balance (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
Polyscope :: Polyscope (n.) An apparatus for affording a view of the different cavities of the body.
Vulcanizer :: Vulcanizer (n.) One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc..
Teagle :: Teagle (n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.
Helm :: Helm (n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone..
Ozonizer :: Ozonizer (n.) An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.
Duodenum :: Duodenum (n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive..
Launder :: Launder (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore..
Brewery :: Brewery (n.) A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
Cup :: Cup (v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
Lute :: Lute (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting..
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter..
Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator..
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Evaporator :: Evaporator (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat..
Log :: Log (n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
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