apparat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.62 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
noun
An apparatus; an instrument; a device.
Example Sentences
- "The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state."
- "I'd like to buy one of the following apparats: - CANON EOS 500 - NIKON F50 - OLIMPUS om 88 […] I'm going to attend a conference in 4-9 October and want to buy an apparat (I've heard they are much cheaper in USA). Also if you are aware of the prices of these apparats in US, help me, and let me know."
- "I imagine you mean a^([sic]) apparat you can determine the endpoint of flocculant addition exactly. With this I made good experience with a apparat which determines the charge on colloides and emulsions even in turbid and concentrated solutions. […] The apparat is mainly used for papermaking."
- "If you haven't noticed, in order to know beforehand (i.e. before actually constructing and testing an apparat) what is required for a desired practical use, one *has* to make mathematical considerations in general."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o- Latin *paro- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin parō Latin apparō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin apparātusder. Russian аппара́т (apparát)bor. English apparat Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: аппара́т, Apparat