system > define

noun

• Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity.
  • usage: "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer"
• A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
  • usage: "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
  • synonyms: scheme
• Physical chemistry. ( a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium)
  • usage: "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide"
• A complex of methods or rules governing behavior.
  • usage: "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender"
  • synonyms: system of rules
• An organized structure for arranging or classifying.
  • usage: "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
• A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts.
  • usage: "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
• A procedure or process for obtaining an objective.
  • usage: "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
• The living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole.
  • usage: "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
• An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized.
  • usage: "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
  • synonyms: organization, organisation

• (n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
• (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
• (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.
• (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.) 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.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.