Apparatus

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Apparatus

Apparatus, (Latin, apparatus; plural apparatus or apparatuses) is a mass noun

Mass noun

In linguistics, a mass noun is a common noun that presents entities as an unbounded mass. Given that different languages have different grammatical resources, the actual test for which nouns are mass nouns may vary from language to language....
used to describe equipment designed or assembled for a particular purpose. Examples include:

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Apparatus, (Latin, apparatus; plural apparatus or apparatuses) is a mass noun

Mass noun

Fire apparatus
Fire apparatus

A fire apparatus, fire engine, fire truck, or fire appliance is a vehicle designed to assist in fighting fires, by transporting firefighters to the scene, and providing them with access, water or other equipment....
Equipment used in gymnastics
Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
Kipp's apparatus
Kipp's apparatus

Kipp's apparatus, also called Kipp generator, is an apparatus used in chemical laboratories for preparation of small volumes of gases. It is named after its inventor Petrus Jacobus Kipp....
Golgi apparatus
Golgi apparatus

The Golgi apparatus is an organelle found in most eukaryote Cell . It was identified in 1898 by the Italian physician Camillo Golgi and was named after him....
(also called a Golgi body, Golgi complex, or dictyosome) is an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells.

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Critical apparatus
Critical apparatus

The critical apparatus is the critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text. A critical apparatus is often a by-product of textual criticism....
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is an American Rock music band that formed in 2003 in Jacksonville, Florida, Florida....
, a post-hardcore
Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a music genre that evolved from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups who emerged from the hardcore punk scene, or took inspiration from hardcore, while concerning themselves with a wider palette of expression, closer to...
band
Ideological State Apparatuses
Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser was a Marxist philosophy. He was born in Algeria and studied at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....
, philosophical construct by Louis Pierre Althusser
Apparatus theory
Apparatus theory

Apparatus theory, derived in part from Marxist film theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within film theory during the 1970s....