Meaning of apparatus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished
2. The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
3. A complex machine or instrument
4. A complex machine or instrument.
5. An assortment of tools and instruments
6. An assortment of tools and instruments.
   collective
7. A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage
8. A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
9. A vehicle used for emergency response
10. A vehicle used for emergency response.
11. Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
12. Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
13. A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
14. In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)

Equivalents

Examples

“These television stations are part of the apparatus and power of Milosevic. This is the apparatus he has used to do the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. It is the apparatus that keeps him in power and we are entirely justified as Nato allies in damaging and taking on those targets.”

“Among the many good points Thomas Piketty makes in Capital in the Twenty First Century – his world-changing but surprisingly mild book – is that extreme inequality can be sustained politically only through an “apparatus of justification”.”

“Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.”

“It describes a “coordinated effort by the CCP’s propaganda apparatus … to discredit the BBC, distract international attention and recapture control of the narrative,” mostly outside Chinese borders.”

““I have met my young photographer,” said De Stancy, cheerily. “What a small world it is, as every busybody truly observes! I am wishing he could take some views for us as we go on; but you have no apparatus with you, I suppose, Mr. Dare?””

“An apparatus for exploring the atmosphere of a planet such as Venus, at a specific altitude, was patented this week for a French agency, the Office Nationale d'Etudes et de Recherche Aerospatiales.”

“We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.”

“In English fiction—that is to say British fiction in the English language tradition—it is a subtle question because we dislike thinking abstractly and conceptualisation of government, where it exists, is vague and confused. Take bishops: they sat as legislators and so were part of the governing apparatus.”

“DOMESTIC VAPOUR BATH.—Of all the domestic apparatûs that have been invented as auxiliaries to medicine, that of the Vapour Bath affords the most efficacious preventive of inflammation of the lungs, liver, or intestines; and when either of these diseases has taken place, it is often more efficacious in checking its progress, and in producing a favourable termination, than internal medicine, and is unquestionably, in the majority of cases, necessary to secure the beneficial operation of internal remedies.”

“Now if this view be admitted, we cannot urge any very forcible objection to the specifications made, unless it be that in some of the functions enumerated, the same apparatus is made to subserve different purposes, as for instance the nerves, that of sensation and innervation, and the respiratory, assimilative, and secretory apparatûs, the functions which appertain to them properly, and also that of calorification.”

“Singular nouns are paired with plural: ‘a uocabulis non a uerbo’ (3. 12. 3), ‘ingenio … atque doctrinis’ (13. 5. 3), ‘tabemque et morbos’ (19. 5. 3),⁶⁵ the archaic transitive gerund of obligation with the current gerundive: ‘quae non uolgo ac temere … adeundum et reuerenda et reformidanda sunt magis quam inuolganda’ (4. 9. 9). /[…]/ ⁶⁵ Wasse 402–3 (Lat. tr . 433), cf. Müller 28, 34. Joseph Wasse, the ‘uir doctus’ of our apparatûs at 6. 3. 55, 19. 12. 3, is identified by Oudendorp on Apul. 8. 6. 1 ‘defuncto [immo definito] iuuene’ and by Saxius i. 311, who also states that ‘A.’, the annotator of the Latin version, was Burman, not (as Hertz on 17. 10. 7, 19. 1. 1) Abresch.”

“Small errors in and inconsistencies between the apparatûs of previous editions have been corrected and verified.”

“Such work is important not only because it fills out the first part of the mammalian physiological story, but also because the functional apparatūs come into service seriatim during intra-uterine life, so that it is possible, for instance, to separate the earlier, […]”

“For Whitehead, human organs of perception are similarly physical apparatūs, and like those of quantum physicists, part of the external world that has to be taken account of on the same principles as the objects under observation.”

“Singular nouns are paired with plural: ‘a uocabulis non a uerbo’ (3. 12. 3), ‘ingenio … atque doctrinis’ (13. 5. 3), ‘tabemque et morbos’ (19. 5. 3).⁵⁶ […] 56. Wasse 402–3 (Lat. tr. 433), cf. Müller 28, 34. Joseph Wasse, the ‘uir doctus’ of our apparatūs at 6. 3. 55, 19. 12. 3, is identified by Oudendorp on Apul. 8. 6. 1 ‘defuncto [immo definito] iuuene’ and by Saxius i. 311, who also states that ‘A.’, the annotator of the Latin version, was Burman, not (as Hertz on 17. 10. 7, 19. 1. 1) Abresch.”

“Very little serious work has been done on textual criticism of the O.T. despite the fact that every scholar feels competent to dip into synthetic apparatūs to help solve difficult passages.”

“As mentioned previously, the systems posited by DST are an expression of the epistemic and conceptual constraints of the positor and do not purport to describe or explain the metaphysical contours of the world as it really is, in itself. Explanations are always explanations for someone. The world “as it is in itself” does not need anything explained; only that which is epistemically constrained does. DST provides a framework through which particular kinds of epistemic interrogators with specific types of epistemic constraints (such as humans with their unique sensory and conceptual apparatūs) can be explanatorily satisfied.”

“In general, scientific research is ruled by a strong mandate for objectivity, freedom from value judgement and validity, while teaching has a moreover subjective, normative and situated character. However, assessment in school uses quantitative test apparatūs without satisfying its scientific requirements.”

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