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appliance
/əˈplaɪəns/
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What does appliance mean?
noun
- An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially
- A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.
- An attachment, a piece of equipment to adapt another tool or machine to a specific purpose.
More meanings (3)
noun
- (obsolete) The act of applying.
- (obsolete) A means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.
- (obsolete, rare) Willing service, willingness to act as someone wishes.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈplaɪəns/
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While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence.
If we consider the most important new mechanical war appliance, the tank, we find it no exception to the above remarks.
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The J. B. L. Cascade is the most satisfactory and effective appliance for flushing the intestinal canal that has yet been invented.
Until it does, no precaution too rigorous can be taken, no safety appliance, however costly, must be omitted from a ship's equipment.
To its perfection its size bears witness, for there is no other appliance so small for the great work it has to do.