The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apparatus \Ap"pa*ratus\, n.; pl. Apparatus, also rarely Apparatuses. [L., from apparare, apparatum, to prepare; ad + prepare to make ready.]
Things provided as means to some end.
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.
(Physiol.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of apparatus English)
Usage examples of "apparatuses".
It was odd, Murakuma thought, that different as all their vocal apparatuses were, all of them could manage a form of "Bug" that was at least recognizable.
It could not have been easy, given the differences in their vocal apparatuses, so why take the trouble?
They did not attempt to meet the spacecraft, but came to rest well beneath her and adjusted their apparatuses.
Obviously they no longer know why they decorate and equip their gods and kings with such complicated apparatuses.
Need I point out that apparatuses and masks were necessary for a flight in the universe?
We cannot avoid asking ourselves whether these trunks were not really breathing apparatuses.
Like magic, the various apparatuses of my laboratory could be made to flow from the walls and ceiling, until I was ready to work.
If the Morlocks wished to assemble a work area—or clear it for some other purpose—the relevant apparatuses could be extruded directly from the Floor, or else absorbed back.
The UN, presumably with the backing of the MegaMall, had forced on its member states a worldwide ban on devices for connecting brains directly to electronic apparatuses, for whatever purpose—but the main effect of the ban had been to drive a good deal of ongoing research underground.
His situation would not have been so bad if he had only been required to avoid such close confinement as that associated with elevators and whole-body VE apparatuses.
But what’s even more worrying is how this appears to people in New Babylon, and their security apparatuses.