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apparatus

apparatus

n.

1. any instrument or equipment used in an experiment or other research.

2. in biology, a group of structures that perform a particular function. It may be microscopic, as in the intracellular Golgi apparatus, or macroscopic, as in the vestibular apparatus.

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