What is the meaning of organ?

noun

  • A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
  • A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function.
    • usage: "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department"
  • Music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ.
  • A periodical that is published by a special interest group.
    • usage: "the organ of the communist party"
  • 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.
  • A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows.
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