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The full set of gear, gizmos, and bureaucracy assembled to make one thing happen.
means A complex piece of equipment or organized system of parts working together toward a specific function.
from From Latin apparatus, meaning preparation or equipment, from apparare, to prepare for — literally everything you set up before the show.
Plural twistPlural is also apparatus, unchanged like sheep.
Two flavorsMeans both physical machinery and political machinery.
Critical apparatusScholarly term for a text's tangle of footnotes.