American English pronunciation
How to pronounce apparatus
IPA transcription: [,æpɚ'ætəs]
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Noun
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equipment designed to serve a specific function
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(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
“the breathing apparatus”
Usage examples
- The boy looked around for the ovens and other apparatus used in alchemy, but saw none.
- Adnan Al-Ghoul was one of the senior operatives in Hamas' military-terrorist apparatus.
- Do not touch the apparatus before I told you to do so.
- It produced x-ray apparatus for the whole country.
- There stood the apparatus, the experiments arranged and waiting.
- Ruffo made an apparatus to study the phenomenon further.
- A Soxhlet apparatus has been proposed as an effective technique for washing mass standards.
- The boy looked around for the ovens and other apparatus used in alchemy, but saw none.
- Do not touch the apparatus before I told you to do so.
- The boy looked around for the ovens and other apparatus used in alchemy, but saw none.