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Spindle Apparatus: Microtubule construction that aligns and segregates chromosomes during eukaryotic cell division.

Stomatal Apparatus: The stomata and guard cells that control the size of the stoma.

Television Apparatus: The combined work of all of the various factions (bankers, media corporations, directors, scriptwriters) that create television programs and the viewing experience itself--including the psyc . . . View Full Definition

Spindle Speed: The RPM at which a machine is set.

Mental Apparatus: id, ego and superego in psychodynamic terms

Spindle: A rotating device widely used in machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, drill presses and so forth, to hold the cutting tools or the work and to give them their rotation.

Mitotic Spindle: A network of microtubules formed during prophase. Some microtubules attach to the centromeres of the chromosomes and help draw the chromosomes apart during anaphase.