English > equipment: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service. |
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| Narrower | apparatus, setup | equipment designed to serve a specific function |
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| automation | equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation |
| cooling system, engine cooling system | equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine |
| electrical system | equipment in a motor vehicle that provides electricity to start the engine and ignite the fuel and operate the lights and windshield wiper and heater and air conditioner and radio |
| electronic equipment | equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor) |
| fuel system | equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine |
| game equipment | equipment or apparatus used in playing a game / game / game |
| gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
| life-support system, life support | medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive |
| life-support system, life support | equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions |
| material | things needed for doing or making something |
| materiel, equipage | equipment and supplies of a military force |
| naval equipment | equipment for a navy |
| photographic equipment | equipment used by a photographer |
| radiotherapy equipment | equipment used to treat diseases with x-rays or radioactivity |
| recorder, recording equipment, recording machine | equipment for making records |
| rescue equipment | equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency |
| robotics equipment | equipment used in robotics |
| satellite, artificial satellite, orbiter | man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon |
| sports equipment | equipment needed to participate in a particular sport |
| stock-in-trade | Any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation |
| teaching aid | materials and equipment used in teaching |
| technology | Machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences |
| test equipment | equipment required to perform a test |
| Broader | instrumentality, instrumentation | An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end |
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| Spanish | equipamiento, equipo |
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| Catalan | equipament, equip, utillatge |
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| Verbs | equip | provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose |
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