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noun
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
A set of body organs having a particular function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure, apparatus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: multiplicity
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure, multiple, plural system
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, countable, derogatory, often, uncountable
Qualifier: preceded by the
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: roleplaying games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
A socioeconomic formation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A method or way of organizing or planning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: instrumentality, instrumentation
Narrower terms: 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, propulsion system, resonator, scaffolding, staging, security system, selsyn, synchro, shipboard system, solar thermal system, sprinkler system, synchromesh
noun
an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: organization, organisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: orderliness, methodicalness
noun
the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: live body
noun
a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body part
Narrower terms: 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
noun
a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: system of rules
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: method
Narrower terms: accounting, discipline, frame of reference, frame, gambling system, government, honor system, logic, logical system, system of logic, merit system, point system, spoils system, organon, program, programme, theosophy, anthroposophy, theology, theological system, ethic, ethical code
noun
an organized structure for arranging or classifying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: arrangement, organization, organisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: structure
Narrower terms: classification system, contrivance, coordinate system, frame of reference, reference system, reference frame, data structure, design, plan, distribution, statistical distribution, genetic map, kinship system, lattice, living arrangement, ontology, calendar
noun
a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plan of action
Narrower terms: credit system, legal system, pricing system, promotion system
noun
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: scheme
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group, grouping
Narrower terms: 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
noun
(physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: matter
History
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.
Across languages
198 source translations are retained for this English entry.
