system
nounEtymology
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 (sŭnístēmĭ, “to combine, organize”) + -μᾰ (-mă, resultative suffix). σῠνίστημῐ is from σῠν- (sŭn-, “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.
Definitions
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
- 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.
A method or way of organizing or planning.
- Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.
The neighborhood
- neighbornetwork
- neighborabsolute system
- neighborabsorption system
- neighborAbt system
- neighboradaptive immune system
- neighboradvanced train control system
- neighboradversarial system
- neighboragrisystem
- neighboragrosystem
- neighborairport system
- neighboralarm system
- neighborantisystem
Derived
antisystem, cybersystem, gaming the system, intersystem, minisystem, nanosystem, out of one's system, shitstem, sociotechnical system theory, sys, sysadmin, syscourse, syscovery, sysmedicalism, sysmedicalist, sysop, sysprog, system administrator, system architecture, systematic, systematisation, systematization, systematise, systematize, system bus, system call, systemctl, systemd, system dynamics, systemed, systemic, systemical, systemin, systemise, systemism, systemist, systemization, systemize, systemless, system-monger · +28 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for system. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA