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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... 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 Poaceae (or Gramineae) The APG II system ...
20th century, Saussure introduced the idea of language as a static system of interconnected units, defined through the oppositions between them ... distinguishing language as an abstract system (langue) from language as a concrete manifestation of this system (parole) ...
... 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 ... The "dumb" rocket pods could be upgraded to laser guided with the proposed Ugroza system ...
... 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 Hilbert space ... 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 ...
... with the 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 ...
More definitions of "system":
- (noun): A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts.
Example: "The body has a system of organs for digestion"
- (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 procedure or process for obtaining an objective.
Example: "They had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
- (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): 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): An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized.
Example: "We can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
Synonyms: organization, organisation
- (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:
“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)
“We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I am fearful that the paper system ... will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere ... I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)