apparatuses
- 1Plural of apparatus.
The museum displayed early scientific apparatuses from the seventeenth century.
Engineers compared two heating apparatuses for energy efficiency.
Note
English gives apparatus a regular -es plural, and it sits alongside the unchanged plural apparatus, which leans formal and classical. Apparatuses suits the countable senses: separate machines or instruments, rival bureaucracies, emergency vehicles, the several pieces a gymnast moves between. The collective sense, an assortment of tools, already names a set, so it usually stays singular. A lab's apparatus is all its gear; its apparatuses are distinct devices.
apparatuses is a form of apparatus
apparatus, noun: The equipment, machinery, or set of instruments needed for a particular task or purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- apparatusapparatuses pluralapparatusses plural
- Spelling
- apparatus → apparatuses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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