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| n. (artifact) | 1. system | 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" |
| ~ audio system, sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound. |
| ~ communication system | a system for communicating. |
| ~ adp system, adps, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage. |
| ~ containment | (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor. |
| ~ control system | a system for controlling the operation of another system. |
| ~ data system, information system | system consisting of the network of all communication channels used within an organization. |
| ~ drainage system | a system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water. |
| ~ exhaust system, exhaust | system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged. |
| ~ eds, explosive detection system | a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports. |
| ~ etd, explosive trace detection | a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives. |
| ~ guidance device, guidance system | a system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile). |
| ~ assemblage, hookup | a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose. |
| ~ inertial guidance system, inertial navigation system | a system to control a plane or spacecraft; uses inertial forces. |
| ~ infrastructure, substructure | the basic structure or features of a system or organization. |
| ~ instrumentation, instrumentality | an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end. |
| ~ lockage | a system of locks in a canal or waterway. |
| ~ labyrinth, maze | complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost. |
| ~ mechanical system | a system of elements that interact on mechanical principles. |
| ~ module | a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components. |
| ~ navigational system | a system that provides information useful in determining the position and course of a ship or aircraft. |
| ~ electronic network, network | (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits. |
| ~ network | a system of intersecting lines or channels.; "a railroad network"; "a network of canals" |
| ~ propulsion system | a system that provides a propelling or driving force. |
| ~ resonator | any system that resonates. |
| ~ scaffolding, staging | a system of scaffolds. |
| ~ security system | (computing) a system that enforces boundaries between computer networks. |
| ~ selsyn, synchro | a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized. |
| ~ shipboard system | a system designed to work as a coherent entity on board a naval ship. |
| ~ solar thermal system | a system that converts sunlight into heat. |
| ~ sprinkler system | a system for extinguishing fires; water from a network of overhead pipes is released through nozzles that open automatically with the rise in temperature. |
| ~ synchromesh | an automotive system for shifting gears in which the gears revolve at the same speed and so shift smoothly. |
| n. (group) | 2. scheme, system | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ language system | a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language. |
| ~ judicatory, judicial system, judicature, judiciary | the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government. |
| ~ economic system, economy | the system of production and distribution and consumption. |
| ~ ecosystem | a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment. |
| ~ hierarchy | a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system.; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" |
| ~ social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships.; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" |
| ~ dragnet | a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals).; "caught in the police dragnet" |
| ~ machinery | a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions.; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order" |
| ~ network, web | an interconnected system of things or people.; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth" |
| ~ nonlinear system | a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree. |
| ~ subsystem | a system that is part of some larger system. |
| ~ organism | a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body.; "the social organism" |
| ~ syntax | a systematic orderly arrangement. |
| ~ body | a collection of particulars considered as a system.; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" |
| ~ shebang | an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'. |
| ~ solar system | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field. |
| ~ water system | a river and all of its tributaries. |
| ~ root system, rootage | a developed system of roots. |
| n. (substance) | 3. system | (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium.; "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide" |
| ~ matter | that which has mass and occupies space.; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it" |
| ~ physical chemistry | the branch of chemistry dealing with the physical properties of chemical substances. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. system, system of rules | 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" |
| ~ method | a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps). |
| ~ accounting | a system that provides quantitative information about finances. |
| ~ discipline | a system of rules of conduct or method of practice.; "he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine"; "for such a plan to work requires discipline" |
| ~ frame of reference, frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning. |
| ~ gambling system | a system of rules for placing bets that is believed to lead to winning.; "he has a perfect gambling system at roulette" |
| ~ government | (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed.; "tyrannical government" |
| ~ honor system | a system of conduct in which participants are trusted not to take unfair advantage of others.; "the students are on the honor system" |
| ~ logical system, system of logic, logic | a system of reasoning. |
| ~ merit system | the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability. |
| ~ point system | a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules. |
| ~ spoils system | the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power. |
| ~ organon | a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge. |
| ~ program, programme | a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need.; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program" |
| ~ theosophy | a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul. |
| ~ anthroposophy | a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education. |
| ~ logic | the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations. |
| ~ theological system, theology | a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings.; "Jewish theology"; "Roman Catholic theology" |
| ~ ethical code, ethic | a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. arrangement, organisation, organization, system | an organized structure for arranging or classifying.; "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" |
| ~ structure | the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations.; "his lectures have no structure" |
| ~ classification system | a system for classifying things. |
| ~ contrivance | an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc..; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable" |
| ~ coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame, reference system | a system that uses coordinates to establish position. |
| ~ data structure | (computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer). |
| ~ design, plan | an arrangement scheme.; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" |
| ~ distribution, statistical distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence. |
| ~ genetic map | graphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosome. |
| ~ kinship system | (anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed. |
| ~ lattice | an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions. |
| ~ living arrangement | an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist. |
| ~ ontology | (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations. |
| ~ calendar | a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year. |
| n. (body) | 6. system | a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts.; "the body has a system of organs for digestion" |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ articulatory system | the system of joints in the body. |
| ~ digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium | the system that makes food absorbable into the body. |
| ~ endocrine system | the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity. |
| ~ venous blood system, venation | (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal. |
| ~ immune system | a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response. |
| ~ integumentary system | the skin and its appendages. |
| ~ res, reticuloendothelial system | a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells. |
| ~ mononuclear phagocyte system, mps, system of macrophages | a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow. |
| ~ muscle system, muscular structure, musculature | the muscular system of an organism. |
| ~ musculoskeletal system | the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form. |
| ~ nervous system, systema nervosum | the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells. |
| ~ central nervous system, cns, systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. |
| ~ peripheral nervous system, systema nervosum periphericum | the section of the nervous system lying outside the brain and spinal cord. |
| ~ genital system, reproductive system | organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring. |
| ~ apparatus urogenitalis, genitourinary apparatus, genitourinary system, systema urogenitale, urinary apparatus, urinary system, urogenital apparatus, urogenital system | the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine. |
| ~ respiratory system, systema respiratorium | the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing. |
| ~ sensory system | the body's system of sense organs. |
| ~ tract | a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose. |
| ~ vascular system | the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant. |
| ~ skeletal system, systema skeletale, skeleton, frame | the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal. |
| n. (cognition) | 7. system | a procedure or process for obtaining an objective.; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation" |
| ~ plan of action | a plan for actively doing something. |
| ~ credit system | a system for allowing people to purchase things on credit. |
| ~ legal system | a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws. |
| ~ pricing system | a system for setting prices on goods or services. |
| ~ promotion system | a system for advancing participants to higher-status positions. |
| n. (body) | 8. system | the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole.; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system" |
| ~ live body | the body of a living animal or person. |
| n. (attribute) | 9. organisation, organization, system | 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" |
| ~ methodicalness, orderliness | the quality of appreciating method and system. |
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