System
A system is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole or a set of elements (often called 'components' ) and relationships which are different from relationships of the set or its elements to other elements or sets.
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... laser guidance is reported to be virtually jam-proof and the system features automatic guidance to target, enabling evasive action immediately after missile launch ... The fire control system automatically shares all target information among the four Black Sharks of a typical flight in real time, allowing one helicopter to engage a ... The "dumb" rocket pods could be upgraded to laser guided with the proposed Ugroza system ...
... As used in the Engler system (update, of 1964) and in the Wettstein system it consisted of only the single family ... In the Cronquist system it is used for an order (placed in subclass Commelinidae) and circumscribed as (1981) order Cyperales family Cyperaceae family ...
... Early in the 20th century, Saussure introduced the idea of language as a static system of interconnected units, defined through the oppositions between them ... and the langue- parole distinction, distinguishing language as an abstract system (langue) from language as a concrete manifestation of this system (parole) ...
... Pascal-based interfaces and development environments of the early Apple systems ... In addition, QuickDraw is a raster graphics system, which defines the pixel as its basic unit of graphical information ... This is in contrast to vector graphics systems, where graphics primitives are defined in mathematical terms and rasterized as required to the display resolution ...
... Decoherence can be modelled as a non-unitary process by which a system couples with its environment (although the combined system plus environment evolves in a unitary fashion) ... Thus the dynamics of the system alone, treated in isolation, are non-unitary and, as such, are represented by irreversible transformations acting on the system's ... Since the system's dynamics are represented by irreversible representations, then any information present in the quantum system can be lost to the environment or heat bath ...
More definitions of "system":
- (noun): A procedure or process for obtaining an objective.
Example: "They had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
- (noun): The living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole.
Example: "Exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
- (noun): An organized structure for arranging or classifying.
Example: "He tried to understand their system of classification"
Synonyms: arrangement, organization, organisation
- (noun): A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
Example: "A vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
Synonyms: scheme
- (noun): (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium.
Example: "In a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide"
- (noun): A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts.
Example: "The body has a system of organs for digestion"
- (noun): A complex of methods or rules governing behavior.
Example: "They have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender"
Synonyms: system of rules
- (noun): Instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity.
Example: "He bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer"
Famous quotes containing the word system:
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”
—Timothy Leary (b. 1920)