System

Quick meaning: System is a noun meaning A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.

Meaning

A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.

More Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A method or way of organizing or planning.

Example Sentences

Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• systems

Synonyms for system

Depending on context, synonyms include arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include organisation, organization, arrangement, unit, regime, polity.

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