system
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
computing
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entertainment
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mathematics
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natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physiology
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sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: systems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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[…].
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the footnote attached to this statement Rosen refers to the “hypnotic” quality of Kojève’s system.
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: the man, yes men, elephant in the room, emperor's new clothes, Leviathan, Big Brother
“Overwork started his illness, kept it alight, and killed him, poor devil. Write him off to the System - one man to do the work of two-and-a-half men.”
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
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The capitalist system
gloss: A method or way of organizing or planning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 we passed along, the party of Too-wit (the whole hundred and ten savages of the canoes) was momentarily strengthened by smaller detachments, of from two to six or seven, which joined us, as if by accident, at different turns in the road. There appeared so much of system in this that I could not help feeling distrust, and I spoke to Captain Guy of my apprehensions.
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.
Related words: network
Derived words: 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
systemness
systemoid
system-on-chip
system operator
system pull
systempunkt
system sales
systems art
systems biology
systems categories
systems ecology
system seller
systems engineering
systems of measurement
system software
systems science
systems theory
system time
system tray
system unit
system-wide
systemwide
systemwise
the purpose of a system is what it does
unified type system
wet arm system
work the system
world-system
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sisteem
lang: Afrikaans
word: stelsel
lang: Albanian
word: sistem
lang: Arabic
word: نِظَام
roman: niẓām
lang: Arabic
word: جِهَاز
roman: jihāz
lang: Arabic
word: نظام
roman: neẓām
lang: Arabic
word: سيستم
roman: sestem
lang: Aragonese
word: sistema
lang: Armenian
word: համակարգ
roman: hamakarg
lang: Assamese
word: ছিষ্টেম
roman: sistem
lang: Assamese
word: পদ্ধতি
roman: poddhoti
lang: Assamese
word: ব্যৱস্থা
roman: byowostha
lang: Asturian
word: sistema
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sistem
lang: Belarusian
word: сістэ́ма
roman: sistéma
lang: Belarusian
word: сыстэ́ма
roman: systéma
lang: Bengali
word: সিস্টেম
roman: śisṭem
lang: Bengali
word: রীতি
roman: riti
lang: Bengali
word: পদ্ধতি
roman: poddhoti
lang: Bulgarian
word: систе́ма
roman: sistéma
lang: Burmese
word: နည်း
roman: nany:
lang: Burmese
word: စနစ်
roman: ca.nac
lang: Catalan
word: sistema
lang: Cebuano
word: pamaagi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 系統 /系统
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 體系 /体系
roman: tai² hai⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 系統 /系统
roman: xìtǒng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 制度
roman: zhìdù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 體系 /体系
roman: tǐxì
lang: Corsican
word: sistemu
lang: Czech
word: systém
lang: Czech
word: soustava
lang: Danish
word: system
lang: Dutch
word: systeem
lang: Dutch
word: stelsel
lang: Esperanto
word: sistemo
lang: Esperanto
word: komplekso
lang: Estonian
word: menetlus
lang: Estonian
word: süsteem
lang: Finnish
word: järjestelmä
lang: Finnish
word: systeemi
lang: French
word: système
lang: North Frisian
word: Süsteem
lang: North Frisian
word: süsteem
lang: North Frisian
word: süstääm
lang: West-Frisian
word: systeem
lang: West-Frisian
word: stelsel
lang: Galician
word: sistema
lang: Georgian
word: სისტემა
roman: sisṭema
lang: German
word: System
lang: German
word: Ordnung
lang: German
word: Verbund
lang: Swabian
word: Sischdem
lang: Greek
word: σύστημα
roman: sýstima
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σύστημα
roman: sústēma
lang: Hawaiian
word: ʻōnaehana
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁיטָה
roman: shitá
lang: Higaonon
word: pamaagi
lang: Hindi
word: रीति
roman: rīti
lang: Hindi
word: क्रम
roman: kram
lang: Hindi
word: सारणी
roman: sārṇī
lang: Hindi
word: सिस्टम
roman: sisṭam
lang: Hindi
word: प्रणाली
roman: praṇālī
lang: Hindi
word: तरीक़ा
roman: tarīqā
lang: Hindi
word: कार्यप्रणाली
roman: kāryapraṇālī
lang: Hindi
word: तंत्र
roman: tantra
lang: Hungarian
word: rendszer
lang: Hungarian
word: szisztéma
lang: Icelandic
word: kerfi
lang: Ido
word: sistemo
lang: Indonesian
word: sistem
lang: Interlingua
word: systema
lang: Irish
word: córas
lang: Italian
word: sistema
lang: Japanese
word: 系統
roman: keitō
lang: Japanese
word: 系
roman: kei
lang: Japanese
word: 制度
roman: seido
lang: Japanese
word: 体系
roman: taikei
lang: Kazakh
word: жүйе
roman: jüie
lang: Khmer
word: ប្រព័ន្ធ
roman: prɑɑpŏən
lang: Korean
word: 체계
roman: chegye
lang: Korean
word: 제도
roman: jedo
lang: Korean
word: 계통
roman: gyetong
lang: Kyrgyz
word: система
roman: sistema
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тутум
roman: tutum
lang: Lao
word: ລະບົບ
lang: Latin
word: systēma
lang: Latvian
word: sistēma
lang: Lithuanian
word: sistema
lang: Macedonian
word: систем
roman: sistem
lang: Malay
word: sistem
lang: Maltese
word: sistema
lang: Māori
word: pūnaha
lang: Mongolian
word: журам
roman: žuram
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: system
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: system
lang: Occitan
word: sistèma
lang: Oromo
word: sirna
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سیسْتِم
roman: sistem
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَنْظومِه
roman: manzume
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سامانِه
roman: sâmâne
lang: Iranian Persian
word: نِظام
roman: nezâm
lang: Polish
word: układ
lang: Polish
word: system
lang: Portuguese
word: sistema
lang: Romanian
word: sistem
lang: Russian
word: систе́ма
roman: sistéma
lang: Sanskrit
word: व्यवस्थ
roman: vyavastha
lang: Sanskrit
word: क्रम
lang: Scots
word: seestem
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: siostam
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: су́став
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сѝсте̄м
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sústav
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sìstēm
lang: Sicilian
word: sistema
lang: Sindhi
word: سِرِشتو
roman: sirishtow
lang: Slovak
word: systém
lang: Slovak
word: sústava
lang: Slovene
word: sistem
lang: Spanish
word: sistema
lang: Swahili
word: mfumo
lang: Swedish
word: system
lang: Tagalog
word: sistema
lang: Tagalog
word: kaayusan
lang: Tajik
word: систем
roman: sistem
lang: Tajik
word: низом
roman: nizom
lang: Telugu
word: వ్యవస్థ
roman: vyavastha
lang: Thai
word: ระบบ
roman: rá-bòp
lang: Turkish
word: usul
lang: Turkish
word: sistem
lang: Turkish
word: düzen
lang: Turkmen
word: sistema
lang: Ukrainian
word: систе́ма
roman: systéma
lang: Urdu
word: نِظام
roman: nizām
lang: Uyghur
word: سىستېما
roman: sistëma
lang: Uzbek
word: tizim
lang: Uzbek
word: sistema
lang: Vietnamese
word: hệ thống
lang: Volapük
word: sitot
lang: Welsh
word: system
lang: Yiddish
word: סיסטעם
roman: sistem