Apparatus
noun
A set of tools, devices, or equipment used for a particular purpose.
The fire department has new apparatus for extinguishing large fires.
Often appears as...
- surgical apparatus
- fire-fighting apparatus
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Technical
noun
The way something is structured or organized.
The governmental apparatus is divided into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Often appears as...
- state apparatus
- political apparatus
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Formal
Academic
noun
Parts inside a machine that make it work.
The apparatus inside the clock was finely tuned.
Often appears as...
- mechanical apparatus
- electric apparatus
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Technical
noun
In biology, a group of organs working together in the body to perform a function, like digestion.
The renal apparatus is responsible for filtering waste from the blood.
Often appears as...
- digestive apparatus
- respiratory apparatus
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Medical
noun
A set of tools, devices, or equipment used for a particular purpose.
The fire department has new apparatus for extinguishing large fires.
Often appears as...
- surgical apparatus
- fire-fighting apparatus
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The way something is structured or organized.
The governmental apparatus is divided into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Often appears as...
- state apparatus
- political apparatus
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
Parts inside a machine that make it work.
The apparatus inside the clock was finely tuned.
Often appears as...
- mechanical apparatus
- electric apparatus
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In biology, a group of organs working together in the body to perform a function, like digestion.
The renal apparatus is responsible for filtering waste from the blood.
Often appears as...
- digestive apparatus
- respiratory apparatus
Usage tips
Medical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Context Specific
The term 'apparatus' often refers to complex setups, not simple tools.
The lab was equipped with a sophisticated apparatus for analyzing samples.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Gadget
'Apparatus' usually suggests a system or set, not a single gadget.
She adjusted the diving apparatus before exploring the coral reef.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Use
'Apparatus' is generally used in formal or professional contexts.
The firefighters quickly deployed their apparatus to tackle the blaze.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Specific
The term 'apparatus' often refers to complex setups, not simple tools.
The lab was equipped with a sophisticated apparatus for analyzing samples.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Gadget
'Apparatus' usually suggests a system or set, not a single gadget.
She adjusted the diving apparatus before exploring the coral reef.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Use
'Apparatus' is generally used in formal or professional contexts.
The firefighters quickly deployed their apparatus to tackle the blaze.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Specific
The term 'apparatus' often refers to complex setups, not simple tools.
The lab was equipped with a sophisticated apparatus for analyzing samples.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Gadget
'Apparatus' usually suggests a system or set, not a single gadget.
She adjusted the diving apparatus before exploring the coral reef.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Use
'Apparatus' is generally used in formal or professional contexts.
The firefighters quickly deployed their apparatus to tackle the blaze.
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Read Montague: What...
You're mad. That's an unfair offer, and you know what an unfair offer is. This is the kind of game done by my lab and many around the world. That just gives you an example of the kind of thing that these games probe. The interesting thing is, these games require that you have a lot of cognitive apparatus on line. You have to be able to come to the table with a proper model of another person.
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Moral behavior in...
is we have an apparatus around which there is a rope, a single rope. And if you pull on this side of the rope, the rope disappears on the other side. So two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time, and pull. Otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears. The first tape you're going to see
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Moral behavior in...
plot makes is we have an apparatus around of which there's a rope a single rope and if you pull on this side of the Rope the rope disappears on the other side so two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time and pull otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears so the first tape
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How trees talk to each...
paper birch, Douglas fir, and western red cedar. I figured the birch and the fir would be connected in a belowground web, but not the cedar. It was in its own other world. And I gathered my apparatus, and I had no money, so I had to do it on the cheap.
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Anil Gupta: India's...
They used a cycle, they put together a breathing apparatus. And this breathing apparatus now saved the life, and she's very welcome. There's a whole range of innovations that we have. A car, which runs on compressed air with six paisa per kilometer.
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Daniel Wolpert: The real...
And what it means is we really are Bayesian inference machines. As we go around, we learn about statistics of the world and lay that down, but we also learn about how noisy our own sensory apparatus is, and then combine those in a real Bayesian way.
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How fear drives American...
They posed an existential threat to no one. But we rearranged our entire national security apparatus in the most sweeping way since the end of the Second World War. We launched two wars. We spent trillions of dollars. We suspended our values.
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Advocating for gender...
exercise under wraps the massive media apparatus of the UN was never employed to tell the world what was afoot the secretary-general made the occasional reference in speeches but mostly his conduct mirrored his approach to all
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Jason Silva on Illusion...
for there to be something more and I think illusions played that human curiosity if the world as we see it right now is just a construct a rendering of our brains or sexual apparatus low resolution to the images
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What’s in the Trunk?...
tubing called xylem it's filled with water and if i use this apparatus with a probe which goes into the trunk there i can actually hear the water passing along those tubes
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Read Montague: What...
You're mad. That's an unfair offer, and you know what an unfair offer is. This is the kind of game done by my lab and many around the world. That just gives you an example of the kind of thing that these games probe. The interesting thing is, these games require that you have a lot of cognitive apparatus on line. You have to be able to come to the table with a proper model of another person.
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Moral behavior in...
is we have an apparatus around which there is a rope, a single rope. And if you pull on this side of the rope, the rope disappears on the other side. So two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time, and pull. Otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears. The first tape you're going to see
Video examples
Moral behavior in...
plot makes is we have an apparatus around of which there's a rope a single rope and if you pull on this side of the Rope the rope disappears on the other side so two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time and pull otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears so the first tape
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How trees talk to each...
paper birch, Douglas fir, and western red cedar. I figured the birch and the fir would be connected in a belowground web, but not the cedar. It was in its own other world. And I gathered my apparatus, and I had no money, so I had to do it on the cheap.
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Anil Gupta: India's...
They used a cycle, they put together a breathing apparatus. And this breathing apparatus now saved the life, and she's very welcome. There's a whole range of innovations that we have. A car, which runs on compressed air with six paisa per kilometer.
Video examples
Daniel Wolpert: The real...
And what it means is we really are Bayesian inference machines. As we go around, we learn about statistics of the world and lay that down, but we also learn about how noisy our own sensory apparatus is, and then combine those in a real Bayesian way.
Video examples
How fear drives American...
They posed an existential threat to no one. But we rearranged our entire national security apparatus in the most sweeping way since the end of the Second World War. We launched two wars. We spent trillions of dollars. We suspended our values.
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
exercise under wraps the massive media apparatus of the UN was never employed to tell the world what was afoot the secretary-general made the occasional reference in speeches but mostly his conduct mirrored his approach to all
Video examples
Jason Silva on Illusion...
for there to be something more and I think illusions played that human curiosity if the world as we see it right now is just a construct a rendering of our brains or sexual apparatus low resolution to the images
Video examples
What’s in the Trunk?...
tubing called xylem it's filled with water and if i use this apparatus with a probe which goes into the trunk there i can actually hear the water passing along those tubes
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
American Educator
You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.
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Baba Kalyani
Indian Businessman
Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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Jed Mercurio
British Writer
There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out.
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Atom Egoyan
Canadian Director
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
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Bill Scott
American Actor
He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
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Frankie Boyle
Scottish Comedian
The truth is that modern governments sit at the head of a well-funded security apparatus. They are told that foreign military adventures put domestic populations at risk and they give them the thumbs up anyway.
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Al Gore
American Vice President
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
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Robert Smithson
American Artist
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
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Lyor Cohen
American Businessman
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
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Nelson Algren
American Novelist
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
American Educator
You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.
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Baba Kalyani
Indian Businessman
Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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Jed Mercurio
British Writer
There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out.
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Atom Egoyan
Canadian Director
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
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Bill Scott
American Actor
He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
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Frankie Boyle
Scottish Comedian
The truth is that modern governments sit at the head of a well-funded security apparatus. They are told that foreign military adventures put domestic populations at risk and they give them the thumbs up anyway.
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Al Gore
American Vice President
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
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Robert Smithson
American Artist
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
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Lyor Cohen
American Businessman
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.
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Nelson Algren
American Novelist
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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