organ

Words with a similar base: Hammond_organ, electric_organ, electronic_organ, organ, pipe_organ, reed_organ

'organ'

[organ.n.01] as in: a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

'organ'

[organ.n.02] as in: a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

Examples:
The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department

'organ'

[electric_organ.n.01] as in: (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

'organ'

[organ.n.04] as in: a periodical that is published by a special interest group

Examples:
the organ of the communist party

'organ'

[organ.n.05] as in: wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

'organ'

[harmonium.n.01] as in: a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

Origins

					organ (English)
└── organum (Latin)
    └── ὄργανον (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

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