Meaning and example
equipment designed to serve a specific function
The passage used "apparatus" to mean equipment designed to serve a specific function.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.252 places apparatus in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 99.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
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spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
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found in the ordinary course of events
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any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
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characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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