apparatus

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1) The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
 * 2) A complex machine or instrument.
 * 3)  An assortment of tools and instruments.
 * 4) A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
 * 5)  A vehicle used for emergency response.
 * 6)  Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
 * 7)  A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
 * 1)  An assortment of tools and instruments.
 * 2) A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
 * 3)  A vehicle used for emergency response.
 * 4)  Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
 * 5)  A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
 * 1) A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
 * 2)  A vehicle used for emergency response.
 * 3)  Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
 * 4)  A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
 * 1)  A vehicle used for emergency response.
 * 2)  Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
 * 3)  A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
 * 1)  A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”

Usage notes
The word is occasionally used as an plural, as in look at all of those apparatus, maintaining the Latin inflection in English on a  basis. But because the word also has a sense in English and it often appears in such a way that its number (singular or plural) is disguised by absence of any  or lexical signals as to which of these two senses pertained in the mind of the writer, readers may parse it in either sense. Thus in the phrase he was dazzled by the electronic apparatus scattered throughout the room, either parsing works, and the reader cannot tell which one the writer had in mind, although that slight ambiguity is unimportant to the point being made.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish:, ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:, , instrumentarium
 * Vietnamese:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَدَاة, جِهَاز,
 * South Levantine Arabic: آلة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: апара́т
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:, maskineri
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: აპარატი
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Abberahd
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: κατασκεύασμα
 * Hawaiian: maomeka
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: аппарат
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: aparāts
 * Lithuanian: aparatas
 * Macedonian: апара́т
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Aparat
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romagnol: aparê, aparêt
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: апа̀ра̄т
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lansong, lansungan
 * Tajik: аппарат, дастгоҳ, олат,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:, maskineri
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: fearas, gléasra
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: apparātus
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:, instrumentarium,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, aparataje
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:, cyfarpar


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: апара́т
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, maskineri
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: აპარატი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: aparát
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Dutch: turntoestel
 * Finnish:


 * Breton:
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:

Etymology
Perfect passive participle of.

Participle

 * 1) prepared, ready, having been prepared
 * 2) supplied, furnished, having been supplied
 * 3) magnificent, sumptuous, elaborate

Noun

 * 1) preparation, a getting ready
 * 2) A providing
 * 3) tools, implements, instruments, engines
 * 4) supplies, material
 * 5) magnificence, splendor, pomp

Descendants

 * Padanian:
 * Padanian:
 * Padanian:
 * Padanian:
 * Padanian:
 * Padanian:
 * Padanian: