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- 1 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole. countable, uncountable
"Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise. The politician who opposes the corn-laws and advocates free trade, does so on a system, which, as soon as it begins to work, will set the civilized world to rights."
- 2 instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity wordnet
- 3 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A set of hardware and software operating in a computer. countable, uncountable
"WIPO [the World Intellectual Property Organization] reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents. It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of "deep learning." This is a machine learning method that includes speech and facial recognition systems."
- 4 an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized wordnet
- 5 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously. countable, uncountable
"The method of solving systems of equations by matrices that we will look at is based on procedures involving equations that we are familiar with from previous mathematics courses. The main idea is to reduce a given system of equations to another simpler system that has the same solutions."
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- 6 the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole wordnet
- 7 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously. countable, uncountable
"To notate music that is played on a piano or is played by different musicians on various instruments, one often uses several staves to notate the various musical voices. A single vertical line drawn to the left of multiple staves creates a staff system, which indicates that the music on all staves is to be played simultaneously. A bracket is an additional vertically aligned symbol joining staves. This symbol shows groupings of instruments that function as a unit, such as the string section of an orchestra[…]."
- 8 a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts wordnet
- 9 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A set of body organs having a particular function. countable, uncountable
"the digestive system the nervous system"
- 10 a complex of methods or rules governing behavior wordnet
- 11 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them. countable, uncountable
"But that alter often turns out to be relatively recent and fairly peripheral in the multiple's total system of alters."
- 12 an organized structure for arranging or classifying wordnet
- 13 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity. countable, uncountable
"There are eight planets in the solar system."
- 14 a procedure or process for obtaining an objective wordnet
- 15 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs. countable, uncountable
"In the footnote attached to this statement Rosen refers to the “hypnotic” quality of Kojève’s system."
- 16 a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole wordnet
- 17 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual. capitalized, countable, derogatory, often, uncountable
"Meronyms: the man, yes men, elephant in the room, emperor's new clothes, Leviathan, Big Brother"
- 18 (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium wordnet
- 19 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game. countable, uncountable
- 20 A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.; A socioeconomic formation. countable, uncountable
"The capitalist system"
- 21 A method or way of organizing or planning. countable, uncountable
"Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them."
Etymology
Partly borrowed from Middle French sisteme, systeme, partly directly from its etymon Late Latin systēma (“harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system”), from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members”), from σῠνίστημῐ (sŭnístēmĭ, “to combine, organize”) + -μᾰ (-mă, resultative suffix). σῠνίστημῐ is from σῠν- (sŭn-, “with, together”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”). Cognate with Dutch systeem, modern French système, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema. Doublet of systema.
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