Apparatuses

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apparatus \Ap"pa*ratus\, n.; pl. {Apparatus}, also rarely
     {Apparatuses}. [L., from apparare, apparatum, to prepare; ad
     + prepare to make ready.]
     1. Things provided as means to some end.
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     2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or
        utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any
        complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical,
        for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.
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     3. (Physiol.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a
        common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.
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