SYSTEM
\sˈɪstəm], \sˈɪstəm], \s_ˈɪ_s_t_ə_m]\
Definitions of SYSTEM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
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a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
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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"
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a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
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a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
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instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the unit consists of a motor and a small computer"
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the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
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a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
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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"
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a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
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a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
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Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
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The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Orderly combination of parts into a whole; a group of objects forming a natural whole and arranged or acting according to some common law; as, the solar system; orderly collection of rules and principles; as, a system of laws; orderly grouping of facts and objects; as, a system of filing; regular method of transacting business; orderliness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Orderly arrangement, as of parts or elements, into a whole; any orderly classification.
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Orderliness; method.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A methodical arrangement of organisms, etc., according to their relationships.
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A group or aggregation of organs or structures having special functions.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Greek] An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific ;-hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan or whole ; the universe ;-regular method or order;-in music, an interval compounded or supposed to be compounded of several lesser intervals ; -in physiology, the totality of parts in the body performing the same, or an analogous or a connected function ; hence, also, the body as a functional unity or whole.
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