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
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
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 further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
Robert Smithson
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch
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
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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