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Appliance may refer to:
- Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input
- In medicine and dentistry, custom-fitted appliances to an individual for the purpose of correction of a physical or dental problem such as:
- 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
- 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
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