SYSTEM
Definition:
- [noun] a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
Synonyms: scheme
- [noun] instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer"
- [noun] a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender"
Synonyms: of rules
- [noun] a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
- [noun] a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
- [noun] an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification"
Synonyms: arrangement, organization, organisation
- [noun] (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium; "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide"
- [noun] the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
- [noun] an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
Synonyms: organization, organisation
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Related Words:
- language system
- judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system
- economy, economic system
- ecosystem
- social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure
- dragnet
- machinery
- network, web
- nonlinear system
- subsystem
- organism
- syntax
- body
- shebang
- solar system
- water system
- rootage, root system
- audio system, sound system
- communication system
- computer system, computing system, automatic data processing system, ADP system, ADPS
- containment
- control system
- data system, information system
- drainage system
- exhaust, exhaust system
- explosive detection system, EDS
- explosive trace detection, ETD
- guidance system, guidance device
- hookup, assemblage
- inertial guidance system, inertial navigation system
- lockage
- maze, labyrinth
- mechanical system
- navigational system
- network, electronic network
- network
- propulsion system
- resonator
- scaffolding, staging
- security system
- selsyn, synchro
- shipboard system
- solar thermal system
- sprinkler system
- synchromesh
- accounting
- discipline
- frame of reference
- gambling system
- government
- honor system
- logic, logical system, system of logic
- merit system
- point system
- spoils system
- organon
- program, programme
- theology, theological system
- ethic, ethical code
- credit system
- legal system
- pricing system
- promotion system
- articulatory system
- digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium
- endocrine system
- venation, venous blood system
- immune system
- integumentary system
- reticuloendothelial system, RES
- mononuclear phagocyte system, MPS, system of macrophages
- muscular structure, musculature, muscle system
- musculoskeletal system
- nervous system, systema nervosum
- central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale
- peripheral nervous system, systema nervosum periphericum
- reproductive system, genital system
- urogenital system, urogenital apparatus, urinary system, urinary apparatus, genitourinary system, genitourinary apparatus, systema urogenitale, apparatus urogenitalis
- respiratory system, systema respiratorium
- sensory system
- tract
- vascular system
- skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale
- classification system
- contrivance
- coordinate system, frame of reference, reference system, reference frame
- data structure
- design, plan
- distribution, statistical distribution
- genetic map
- lattice
- living arrangement
- calendar
