Apparatus
Apparatus noun - Items needed for the performance of a task or activity.
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Weapon
Weapon noun - Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting.
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Apparatus and weapon are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Apparatus" instead a noun "Weapon".
Nearby Words: weaponry, weaponless
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- Shrubby also has a pair of poison blasts that could be termed breath weapons despite her lack of lungs, and Armagordon has a couple abilities that work like breath weapons but are apparently projected by his eye laser apparatus despite having both lungs and a non-breath-weapon reason to have them.
Source: Video Game / Kaiju-A-GoGo -
The Seventh Sense: all-seeing sensory apparatus, sudden and incredibly precise movement control, levitation, Sage Chakra magnet (WHILE MOVING!), air filter, and weapon of battlefield-leveling mass slaughter, all in one.
Source: Fan Fic / Yet again - In Rhythmic Pretty Cure, Cure Clubs's main weapon is a single club that looks like a cross between a traditional rhythmic gymnastics club apparatus, a marching band majorette's baton, and the Cutie Moon Rod.
Source: Battle Baton
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