Appliance

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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 appliances, computing devices with a specific function and limited configuration ability:
  • Storage appliances: provide storage functionality for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks paradigm
  • Firewall- and Security appliances: computer appliances that are designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic
  • Anti-spam appliances: for e-mail spam
  • Network appliances: are general purpose routers
  • Software appliance, a software application that might be combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware
  • Virtual appliance, a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor
• Fire apparatus, a fire engine or fire truck in British English
• Fire alarm notification appliance, an active fire protection component of a fire alarm system
• 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