system
/ˈsɪstəm/ noun A2- A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
- A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- A set of body organs having a particular function. · the digestive system the nervous system
- A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.
- A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity. · There are eight planets in the solar system.
- A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
Plural systems
From the library
“I think, Albert, you have adopted the system of feeding me on smoke this morning.”
I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant.
Rachel shook her head, as much as to say if she were only at the head of the educational system of the Province things would be much better managed.
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