16 нояб. 2024 г. · noun ; a · a set of materials or equipment designed for a particular use ; b · a group of anatomical or cytological parts functioning together.

The noun apparatus evolved from the Latin apparātus, meaning "equipment or preparation." It might refer to one item, (a breathing apparatus) or a group of items ...

a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose: a piece of apparatus The divers checked their breathing apparatus.

APPARATUS meaning: 1 : a tool or piece of equipment used for specific activities; 2 : the organization or system used for doing or operating something ...

apparatus · ​. [uncountable] the tools or other pieces of equipment that are needed for a particular activity or task · ​. [countable, usually singular] the ...

apparatus (formal) the tools or other pieces of equipment that are needed for a particular activity or task:breathing apparatus for firefighters laboratory ...

Apparatus is the equipment, such as tools and machines, which is used to do a particular job or activity.

The word is occasionally used as an invariant plural, as in look at all of those apparatus, maintaining the Latin inflection in English on a loanword basis.

The earliest known use of the noun apparatus is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for apparatus is from before 1628, in the writing of Fulke Greville, ...