# Apparatus

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**Apparatus** may refer to:

- Technical term for a body of the Soviet and post-Soviet governments (see [Apparatchik](/source/Apparatchik))
- [Machine](/source/Machine)
- [Equipment](/source/Equipment)
- [Critical apparatus](/source/Critical_apparatus), the critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text
- ["Apparatus" (song)](/source/Apparatus_(song)), a song by Bombus
- "Apparatus", a song by Deadguy from the album *[Fixation on a Co-Worker](/source/Fixation_on_a_Co-Worker)*, 1995
- [Apparatus (band)](/source/Apparatus_(band)), an electro-industrial group active during the nineties
- [*Apparatus* (album)](/source/Apparatus_(album)), 1995 release by the band Apparatus
- [*Apparatus* (journal)](/source/Apparatus_(journal)), an academic journal on film
- In [gymnastics](/source/Gymnastics), any of the individual events, or the equipment used in performing the event
- A piece of [laboratory equipment](/source/Laboratory_equipment)
- in [anatomy](/source/Anatomy), a group of organs, see [Apparatus (anatomy)](/source/Apparatus_(anatomy))

## See also

- [Dispositif](/source/Dispositif), apparatus is an English translation of this philosophical term
- [Firefighting apparatus](/source/Firefighting_apparatus)
- [Golgi apparatus](/source/Golgi_apparatus), an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells
- [Apparatus theory](/source/Apparatus_theory), within cinema studies during the 1970s
- [The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus](/source/The_Red_Jumpsuit_Apparatus), a post-hardcore band
- [Ideological state apparatuses](/source/Ideological_state_apparatuses), a philosophical construct by Louis Althusser

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