apparatus vs heat pump

heat pump vs apparatus

apparatus and heat pump both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
apparatus	Yes	No	No	No
heat pump	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, heat pump is a hyponym of apparatus; that is, heat pump is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than apparatus:

apparatus: equipment designed to serve a specific function
heat pump: apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings; can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building

Other hyponyms of apparatus include aerator, burner, cascade liquefier, centrifuge, extractor, separator, chemical reactor, condenser, copier, duplicator, electrograph, generator, heliograph, brooder, incubator, instillator, Kipp's apparatus, lighting, nuclear reactor, reactor, optical bench, pendulum, purifier, reformer, semaphore, sequenator, sequencer, soda fountain, still, submersible, telegraph, telegraphy, titrator, X-ray machine, scintigraph, scintiscanner, atmoradiograph, memory apparatus, mnemometer, whirling table, calorisator, calorizator, chromatograph, disinfector, defecator, pasteuriser, pasteurizer, adsorber.

apparatus (noun)	heat pump (noun)
equipment designed to serve a specific function	apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings; can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building
(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function

Difference between apparatus and heat pump

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