Usually means: Equipment designed for specific tasks.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word apparatus:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. apparatus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apparatus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apparatus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apparatus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apparatus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apparatus, apparatus: Wordnik
  7. apparatus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apparatus: Wiktionary
  9. apparatus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apparatus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apparatus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apparatus: Dictionary.com
  13. apparatus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. apparatus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Apparatus (band), Apparatus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Apparatus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. apparatus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. apparatus: Rhymezone
  19. apparatus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. apparatus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. apparatus: Free Dictionary
  22. apparatus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. apparatus: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. apparatus: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. apparatus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. apparatus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apparatus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. International Publications (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. apparatus: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apparatus: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Apparatus: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
noun:  A complex machine or instrument.
noun:  (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
noun:  A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
noun:  (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
noun:  (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
noun:  (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”

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