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Noun: critical apparatus
  1. The variant readings, footnotes, etc found in a scholarly work or a critical edition of a text.
    "The first printed edition of the New Testament with critical apparatus, noting variant readings among the manuscripts, was produced by the printer Robert Estienne of Paris in 1550."

Type of: criticism, literary criticism

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