Appliance

Appliance may refer to:

  • Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input
    • Small appliances
    • Major appliances
  • In medicine and dentistry, custom-fitted appliances to an individual for the purpose of correction of a physical or dental problem such as:
    • A prosthesis
    • An orthotic appliance
    • dental braces
  • Computer appliance, a computing device with a specific function and limited configuration ability
  • Software appliance, software application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS)
  • Fire apparatus, a fire engine or fire truck in British English
  • In film, a term for latex pieces, such as false ears or other features, used by make-up artists
  • Appliance (band), a British musical group

Famous quotes containing the word appliance:

    Diseases desperate grown
    By desperate appliance are relieved,
    Or not at all.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)