Organ - Definition
organ
n 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 [syn:
electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ,
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 [syn:
organ, pipe organ]
6: a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the
reeds by bellows [syn: harmonium, organ, reed organ]