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System   /sˈɪstəm/   Listen
System

noun
1.
Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity.  "The system consists of a motor and a small computer"
2.
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.  Synonym: scheme.
3.
(physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium.  "A system generating hydrogen peroxide"
4.
A complex of methods or rules governing behavior.  Synonym: system of rules.  "That language has a complex system for indicating gender"
5.
An organized structure for arranging or classifying.  Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, organization.  "The facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original" , "He tried to understand their system of classification"
6.
A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts.
7.
A procedure or process for obtaining an objective.
8.
The living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole.
9.
An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized.  Synonyms: organisation, organization.  "We can't do it unless we establish some system around here"



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... thus that all hope of relief through the action of the general government terminated; and the crisis so long apprehended at length arrived, at which the State was compelled to choose between absolute acquiescence in a ruinous system of oppression, or a resort to her reserved powers—powers of which she alone was the rightful judge, and which only, in this momentous juncture, could save her. ...
— Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839 • John C. Calhoun
... years of age, Carey was slowly piecing together "the doctrines in the Word of God" into something like a system which would at once satisfy his own spiritual and intellectual needs, and help him to preach to others, a little volume was published, of which he wrote:—"I do not remember ever to have read any book with such raptures." It was Help to Zion's Travellers; being an attempt ...
— The Life of William Carey • George Smith
... that the Australian aboriginal is strongly susceptible of kindness, as has been abundantly proved to me, and to the influence of such feeling I doubtlessly owe my life; for if I had treated the natives harshly, and had thrown myself into their power afterwards, as under a kind but firm system I have ever done without the slightest apprehension, they would most assuredly have slain me; and when I assure the reader that I have traversed the country in every direction, meeting numerous tribes of natives, with two men only, and with horses so jaded that it would have been impossible ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt
... of course, very different from ours. There is no radio or television, the motor car is no more than a plaything for the rich. There is only the beginnings of a telephone system. Much sea transport is still by sailing ship and the idea of mass air travel is in the realm of science-fiction. France lost the Franco-Prussian war at the battle of Sedan in 1870, which accounts for the flood of refugees from Alsasce. She had ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... staring at her. It seemed impossible. It was like seeing the hands of time move, like becoming momentarily conscious of the swing and rush of the earth, like perceiving the sweep of the stream of stars in which our system moves.... She was startled and abashed that the news so seized upon her. Little that had ever happened to herself seemed so poignant, so warmed its place in sensation. While Mis' Winslow's mind marked time on details ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale


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