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Definition of organ:
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; "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; "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 |