Apparatūs

//æp.əˈɹæt.uːs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of apparatus form-of, plural, rare

    "Such work is important not only because it fills out the first part of the mammalian physiological story, but also because the functional apparatūs come into service seriatim during intra-uterine life, so that it is possible, for instance, to separate the earlier, […]"

Etymology

From Latin apparātūs, the nominative plural form of apparātus; the macron exists to distinguish the long vowel of the plural from the short vowel of the singular, avoiding homography.

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