System
['sɪstəm]
Definition
(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.) 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.) a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; 'the body has a system of organs for digestion'.
(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'.
(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 independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; 'a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going'.
(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'.
Editor: Spence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.
(n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
(n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
(n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
(n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
(n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
Editor: Whitney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. A whole (viewed with reference to the interdependence of its parts), combination of parts to form a whole.[2]. Scheme, body, plan, theory, connected view.[3]. Order, method, regularity, rule.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Method, scheme, order, regularity, classification, arrangement, rule, plan
ANT:Disorder, derangement, confusion, fortuity, chance, medley, haphazard,incongruity, non-arrangement, nonclassification
Checker: Mattie
Definition
n. anything formed of parts placed together or adjusted into a regular and connected whole: an assemblage of bodies as a connected whole: an orderly arrangement of objects according to some common law or end: regular method or order: a full and connected view of some department of knowledge: an explanatory hypothesis or theory: the universe.—adjs. Systemat′ic -al pertaining to or consisting of system: formed or done according to system: methodical.—adv. Systemat′ically.—ns. Systemati′cian; Systematisā′tion Systemisā′tion.—vs.t. Sys′tematise Sys′temise to reduce to a system.—ns. Sys′tematiser; Sys′tematism; Sys′tematist; Systematol′ogy.—adjs. System′ic systematic; pertaining to the human system; Sys′temless without system: not exhibiting organic structure.—ns. Sys′tem-māk′er -mon′ger one unduly fond of constructing systems.
Edited by Alison
Examples
- In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was all part of a system. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit,espionage, and treachery? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If there had been any system left to be invented they would have found it out at the universities long before this time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But it will be still more difficult to fulfil the second condition, requisite to justify this system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Spain had 10,000 muskets to modernize by the same system, and the breech-block attachments were made at Ilion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The conclusion from this is obvious in favour of the foregoing system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus in January, 1880, his first patent application for a System of Electrical Distribution was signed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our first crude patent law was enacted in 1790, but not until 1836 was the present system adopted. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His solution of this difficulty was a relay system. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this _Outline_ we have sought to show two great systems of development interacting in the story of human society. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The most practical methods of refining salt today are known as the Grainer, Vacuum Pan and Alberger systems. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Said Sir William: It is going to be a most valuable, practical affair--as valuable as water-cisterns to people whether they had or had not systems of water-pipes and water-supply. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We have to distinguish clearly between two entirely different systems of opposition to the Catholic church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Different authors gave different systems, both of natural and moral philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The manner, in which these two systems, though directly contrary, are connected together, may be explains, as follows. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is true, few can form exact systems of the passions, or make reflections on their general nature and resemblances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In heating appliances, steam and water heating systems, base burning and Latrobe stoves, hot air furnaces, gas and oil stoves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is an incidental result of differences in the reproductive systems of the parent-species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But they do not result in systems of philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Rainier and commands a wonderful view of that mountain, on which there is situated one of the largest glacial systems in the world radiating from any single peak. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were interested in the Chicago Edison Company, now one of the largest of the systems in the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In hot-water heating systems, fresh air is not brought to the rooms, for the radiators are closed pipes containing hot water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Checker: Valerie