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How to pronounce apparatus

IPA transcription: [,æpɚ'ætəs]

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Noun

  • equipment designed to serve a specific function

  • (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.