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Another word for apparatus

Noun

  1. Something, as a machine, devised for a particular function

    2. See also:

    machine

  2. Things needed for a task, journey, or other purpose

    3. See also:

    means

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Another word for apparatus

Noun
    2. See also:

    equipment

    device

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The normal form of the apparatus is shown in figs.

  • We have not had an opportunity of testing this, nor Grubb's more recent models; but, should it be found possible to produce such images satisfactorily, without distortion and with an apparatus convenient and rigid in form, such micrometers may possibly supersede the filar micrometer.

  • A " Geyser " is a very convenient form of apparatus for heating a quantity of water in a short time.

  • Betsy lined up two likely abductions and she was anxious to get started, Quinn had already performed his part, setting his apparatus appropriately for a rural Iowa location where a twelve year old boy had gone missing.

  • It takes two of us and an electronic apparatus to create the dream-like trance that lets one of us see episodes from the past.

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