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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sys•tem /ˈsɪstəm/USA pronunciation n. - a collection or combination of parts forming a complex or single whole:[countable]an improved transportation system.
- an organized body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure:[countable]a system of government.
- an orderly, comprehensive set of (often explanatory) facts, principles, and ideas in a given field:[countable]an economic system.
- any regular or special method or orderly plan of proceeding, working etc.:[countable]What's your system for winning at poker?
- Biology, Anatomy[countable]
- a combination of organs or related tissues in the body concerned with the same function:the digestive system.
- the entire human or animal body considered as a functioning unit:That ingredient is toxic to the system.
- one's psychological makeup, esp. when referring to desires or preoccupations:[countable]Now that you've gotten that out of your system, can we please continue without arguing?
- the major authority in a society, business, etc., or in society in general:[countable* usually singular;often: the + ~;sometimes: System]trying to beat the system (= trying to overcome conventional rules or procedures, a bureaucracy, etc., to achieve some goal or secure some advantages).
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sys•tem (sis′təm),USA pronunciation n. - an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole:a mountain system; a railroad system.
- any assemblage or set of correlated members:a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters.
- an ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles, doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought:a system of philosophy.
- a coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure;
organizational scheme:a system of government. - any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure:a system of marking, numbering, or measuring; a winning system at bridge.
- due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure:There is no system in his work.
- the world or universe.
- Astronomy
- a number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws:the solar system.
- a hypothesis or theory of the disposition and arrangements of the heavenly bodies by which their phenomena, motions, changes, etc., are explained:the Ptolemaic system; the Copernican system.
- Biology, Anatomy
- an assemblage of organs or related tissues concerned with the same function:the nervous system; the digestive system.
- the entire human or animal body considered as a functioning unit:an ingredient toxic to the system.
- one's psychological makeup, esp. with reference to desires or preoccupations:to get something out of one's system.
- a method or scheme of classification:the Linnean system of plants.
- (sometimes cap.) the prevailing structure or organization of society, business, or politics or of society in general;
establishment (usually prec. by the):to work within the system instead of trying to change it. - Geologya major division of rocks comprising sedimentary deposits and igneous masses formed during a single geologic period.
- Chemistry[Physical Chem.]a combination of two or more phases, as a binary system, each of which consists of one or more substances, that is attaining or is in equilibrium.
- Computinga working combination of hardware, software, and data communications devices.
- Chess, Gameseither of the two groups of 16 playing squares on four alternate columns.
- Greek sýstēma whole compounded of several parts, equivalent. to sy- sy- + stē- (variant stem of histánai to cause to stand; akin to Latin stāre to stand) + -ma noun, nominal suffix denoting result of action
- Late Latin systēma
- 1610–20
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged organization.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cosmos.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged b. organism.
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