Term: 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
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome: syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis; marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: polioptila: New World gnatcatchers
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: ohmmeter: a meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: potentilla: chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: lemon: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: naval blockade: the interdiction of a nation's lines of communication at sea by the use of naval power
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: sex: all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: cahoot: collusion
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: locum tenens: someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession
Broader: system: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | Unrelated: home theater: television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater