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	Appliance may refer to a device with a narrow function Function (engineering) In engineering, a function is an action or task that a system is designed to perform.... : Home appliance Home appliance Home appliances are electrical/mechanical appliances which accomplish some household functions, such as cooking or cleanliness.Traditionally, home appliances are classified into:... , household machines, using electricity Electricity Electricity is a general term that encompasses a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena such as lightning and static electricity, but in addition, less familiar concepts such as the electromagnetic field and electromagnetic induction.... or some other energy Energy In physics, energy is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of Work_ that can be performed by a force. Energy is an attribute of objects and systems that is subject to a conservation law.... input. Small appliance Small appliance Small appliance refers to a class of home appliances that are portable or semi-portable or which are used on tabletops, countertops, or other platforms.... s Major appliance Major appliance A major appliance, or domestic appliance, is usually defined as a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting.... s In medicine and dentistry, custom-fitted appliances to an individual for the purpose of correction of a physical or dental problem such as prosthetic Prosthesis In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of fusing mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease, or defect.... , orthotic appliances, and dental braces. Computer appliance Computer appliance A computer appliance is generally a separate and discrete hardware component specifically designed to provide a specific compute resource, and which often resides on a dedicated computing platform.... , a computing device with a specific function and limited configuration ability Software appliance Software appliance A software appliance is a Application software combined with just enough operating system for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware or in a Platform virtualization .... , software application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) 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.... , a fire engine or fire truck in British English