The apparatus of an organization or system is its structure and method of operation. For many years, the country had been buried under the apparatus of the regime
Apparatus is the equipment, such as tools and machines, which is used to do a particular job or activity. One of the boys had to be rescued by firemen wearing breathing apparatus
equipment designed to serve a specific function (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus
A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus
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