apparatus

The term apparatus (from Latin apparatus , tool ) has different meanings depending on the subject area:

• generally a technical structure of higher complexity , see also device (in the technically narrower sense a signal or information converting structure ) or machine (in the technically narrower sense an energy or force converting structure ), or apparatus in the technically narrower sense:
• in process engineering a structure that converts material or matter , see apparatus (process engineering)
• in edition studies the collected variants of the main text of a critical edition, see text-critical apparatus . Apparatus also generally refers to footnotes, endnotes, source citations, bibliographies, etc. that accompany the text.
• A smaller collection of media in libraries, see inventory form Apparat
• in biology and anatomy an organ system , for example a swallowing apparatus
• a machine paradigm in philosophy
• a term in politics, see administration
• Apparat (musician) , a German electronics musician
• a plurality of institutions (e.g. state apparatus , force apparatus , police apparatus ), with this meaning mostly used in the singular.

See also

• Apparatus construction
• Apparatchik

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Wiktionary: Apparatus  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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