1. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function 
2. A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
   "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department" 
3. (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
   - electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ 
4. A periodical that is published by a special interest group
   "the organ of the communist party" 
5. 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
   - pipe organ 
6. A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
   - harmonium, reed organ

Derived forms: organs

See also: organic, organist

Type of: agency, authority, body part, bureau, electronic instrument, electronic musical instrument, federal agency, free-reed instrument, government agency, keyboard instrument, office, periodical, wind, wind instrument

Encyclopedia: Organ Organ, France Organ, Hautes-Pyrénées

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