as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
the hospital's operating rooms boast the very latest medical apparatus
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Recent Examples of apparatus
Fire department employee rolls show that Robinson is a fire apparatus operator with a 2025 salary of $104,332.
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Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
The deal effectively means that Warner’s theatrical distribution apparatus in Japan will be dismantled with current team members who support marketing and distribution transitioning responsibilities to Toho-Towa over the next several months.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025
Advanced Cretaceous birds in the group Ornithothoraces, which includes the Prince Creek specimens, are in many ways the first birds with an unquestionably proficient flight apparatus.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
This second day allows the gymnasts to prove their abilities on their strongest apparatus.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
The deal effectively means that Warner’s theatrical distribution apparatus in Japan will be dismantled with current team members who support marketing and distribution transitioning responsibilities to Toho-Towa over the next several months.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025
Advanced Cretaceous birds in the group Ornithothoraces, which includes the Prince Creek specimens, are in many ways the first birds with an unquestionably proficient flight apparatus.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
This second day allows the gymnasts to prove their abilities on their strongest apparatus.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apparatus
Noun
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In the province of Alberta, Calgary’s council voted in 2011 to stop fluoridation in part because of community skepticism and because expensive repairs to the equipment were needed, according to Councillor Gian-Carlo Carrà.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
18 Sep. 2025
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As a health provider, Ascension likely uses legacy medical equipment—an older X-ray or MRI machine, for instance—that can only connect to Windows networks with the older implementation.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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Last Sunday’s set in Chicago proved that even more than six decades in, Daltrey, 81, and Townshend, 80, are still able to reach that gear.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Video shows agents in tactical gear leading people away in handcuffs.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Apparatus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apparatus. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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