system

  • noun 1 a set of things working together as a mechanism or interconnecting network. 2 a person’s body or mind. 3 Computing a group of related hardware units or programs or both, especially when dedicated to a single application. 4 an organized scheme or method. 5 orderliness; method. 6 the prevailing political or social order, especially when regarded as oppressive. 7 Geology a major range of strata corresponding to a period in time.

  — ORIGIN Greek sustema, from sun- ‘with’ + histanai ‘set up’.

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