Apparatus vs. Machinery — What's the Difference?

The technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose

Machines or machine parts considered as a group.

The complex structure of a particular organization or system

The working parts of a particular machine.

A collection of notes, variant readings, and other matter accompanying a printed text

A system of related elements that operate in a definable manner

An appliance or device for a particular purpose

A device or means of achieving or effecting a result.

An integrated group of materials or devices used for a particular purpose

A literary device for bringing about an effect, such as a happy ending.

The totality of means by which a designated function is performed or a specific task executed, as in a system of government.

The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

A political organization or an underground political movement. Also called apparat.

The working parts of a machine as a group.

(Physiology) A group or system of organs that collectively perform a specific function or process

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

The critical and source material, usually including notes and a glossary, that accompanies a scholarly edition of a text.

(figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

Machines, in general, or collectively.

A complex machine or instrument.

The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

(collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.

The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.

Machines or machine systems collectively

(gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions;

(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”

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.

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

Equipment designed to serve a specific function

(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function;