Etimology
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 (sunístēmi, “to combine, organize”) + -μᾰ (-ma, resultative suffix). σῠνίστημῐ is from σῠν- (sun-, “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.
noun
system (plural systems)
A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. [from early 17th c.]
A method or way of organizing or planning.
Examples
Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure
Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise. The politician who opposes the corn-laws and advocates free trade, does so on a system, which, as soon as it begins to work, will set the civilized world to rights.
The bass and treble clefs combined, include all the sounds belonging to our musical system, as they appear on a 6½-octave pianoforte, extending from C C C in the bass to F in altissimo.
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
Some had already been incarcerated for several months awaiting trial, and some were being returned to their cells at Long Bay to wait several months longer ere they would have an` opportunity of disproving the allegations against them. Such mockery of justice is allowed by the all-powerful "system".
Don't want to grow old too fast / Don't want to let the system get me down / I've got to find a way to make the good times last / And if you'll show me how, I'm ready now
WIPO [the World Intellectual Property Organization] reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents. It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of "deep learning." This is a machine learning method that includes speech and facial recognition systems.
The method of solving systems of equations by matrices that we will look at is based on procedures involving equations that we are familiar with from previous mathematics courses. The main idea is to reduce a given system of equations to another simpler system that has the same solutions.
To notate music that is played on a piano or is played by different musicians on various instruments, one often uses several staves to notate the various musical voices. A single vertical line drawn to the left of multiple staves creates a staff system, which indicates that the music on all staves is to be played simultaneously. A bracket is an additional vertically aligned symbol joining staves. This symbol shows groupings of instruments that function as a unit, such as the string section of an orchestra […].
the digestive system the nervous system
Animals have evolved a variety of digestive systems to utilise fibre. The kangaroos have evolved a digestive system that has much in common with those found in ruminant mammals from other continents, but there are also unique features.
But that alter often turns out to be relatively recent and fairly peripheral in the multiple's total system of alters.
Rosie's courage allowed her to engage with me quickly and soon provided reassurance to others in the system that I was safe and non-abusive. Soon after, a number of other alters made themselves known to me. […] I was initially very worried that I would offend the system by missing when switches occurred, or even misidentify who was present with me.
There are eight planets in the solar system.
Yukawa is a small rock planet with a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. After a labor dispute with companies shipping metallic asteroids to the nearby Arcturus system, Yukawa's iron core and blanket of hematite were briefly mined to aid in the construction of Arcturus Station.
In the footnote attached to this statement Rosen refers to the “hypnotic” quality of Kojève’s system.
Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.
But ſo Matters fell out, and ſo I muſt relate them; and if any Reader is ſhocked at their appearing unnatural, I cannot help it. I must remind ſuch Persons, that I am not writing a Syſtem, but a Hiſtory, and I am not obliged to reconcile every Matter to the received Notions concerning Truth and Nature.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, [Peter] Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
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hyponyms
absolute system
Abt system
alarm system
apothecaries' system
aqueferous system
Ardois system
automatic leveling system
Bayer system
belief system
Bertillon system
Bessey system
Bethesda system
binary system
biological system
block system
brigade system
Caland system
cardiovascular system
Chappe system
Chautauqua system
circulatory system
climate system
clipper system
closed system
complex adaptive system
complex system
computer system
conceptual system
contract system
coordinate system
Copernican system
Crofton system
Cronquist system
crystalsistem
cultural system
cyber-physical system
decimal system
design system
dynamical system
economic system
ecosystem
Edelcrantz system
embedded system
ethical system
exhaust system
expert system
filing system
fire system
fly system
formal system
Ganz system
Ghent system
global positioning system
Havesian system
Hennebique system
hire system
honor system
hyperbolic navigation system
imperial system
information system
inquisitorial system
intelligent transportation system
inverse system
isolated system
issue tracking system
legacy stsem
legal system
linear system
logical system
management system
metric system
moral system
multi-agent system
nervous system
nominal type system
open system
operating system
padrino system
Palladius system
physical system
piece system
platoon system
political system
proof system
prototype-based system
Ptolemaic system
purchase system
Pythagorean system
rapid response system
reaction control system
Reed-Kellogg system
reward system
ring system
Schillinger system
sealed system
security system
sensory system
Simon system
Smith system
social system
sociotechnical system
Solar System
space power system
Speenhamland system
squeaky wheel system
staff system
Steiner system
subsystem
Swiss system
taxonomic system
travel system
type system
value system
warden system
Westminster system
writing system
X0 system
XX-XY system
XY system
ZW system
ZZ-ZW system