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  • n system instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity "he bought a new stereo system","the system consists of a motor and a small computer"
  • n system an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality","we can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
  • n system the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
  • n system a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
  • n system a complex of methods or rules governing behavior "they have to operate under a system they oppose","that language has a complex system for indicating gender"
  • n system an organized structure for arranging or classifying "he changed the arrangement of the topics","the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original","he tried to understand their system of classification"
  • n system a procedure or process for obtaining an objective "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
  • n system a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
  • n system (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface","a system generating hydrogen peroxide"
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OIL THE GEARING OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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Eocene System in England

The Optical System of a Lantern

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• Interesting fact: In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.
• • System An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system. "The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system , or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass."
  • System (Biol) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
  • System Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. "The great system of the world."
  • System (Zoöl) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
  • System Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
  • System (Mus) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score n.
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• Interesting fact: The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897
• • n system Any combination or assemblage of things adjusted as a regular and connected whole; a number of things or parts so connected as to make one complex whole; things connected according to a scheme: as, a system of canals for irrigation; a system of pulleys; a system of railroads; a mountain system; hence, more specifically, a number of heavenly bodies connected together and acting on each other according to certain laws: as, the solar system; the system of Jupiter and his satellites.
  • n system A plan or scheme according to which ideas or things are connected into a whole; a regular union of principles or facts forming one entire whole; an assemblage of facts, or of principles and conclusions, scientifically arranged, or disposed according to certain mutual relations so as to form a complete whole; a connected view of all the truths or principles of some department of knowledge or action: as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of education; a system of divinity; a system of botany or of chemistry; a system of railroading: often equivalent to method.
  • n system The scheme of all created things considered as one whole; the universe.
  • n system Regular method or order; plan: as, to have no system in one's business or study.
  • n system In astronomy, any hypothesis or theory of the disposition and arrangements of the heavenly bodies by which their phenomena, their motions, changes, etc., are explained: as, the Ptolemaic system; the Copernican system; a system of the universe, or of the world.
  • n system In the fine arts, a collection of the rules and principles upon which an artist works.
  • n system In Byzantine music, an interval conceived of as compounded of two lesser intervals, as an octave or a tetrachord.
  • n system In medieval and modern music, a series of tones arranged and classified for artistic use, like a mode or scale.
  • n system In modern musical notation, two or more staffs braced together for concerted music.
  • n system In ancient prosody, a group of two or more periods; by extension, a single period of more than two or three cola; a hypermetron. A system the metrical form of which is repeated once or oftener in the course of a poem is called a strophe.
  • n system In biology: An assemblage of parts or organs of the same or similar tissues. The principal systems of the body in this sense are the nervous, both cerebrospinal and sympathetic; the muscular, both voluntary and involuntary; the osseous, including the cartilages as well as the bones of the skeleton; the vascular. including the blood-vascular and lymphatic or absorbent; the tegumentary; the mucous, including the mucous membranes; and the serous, including the serous membranes. These systems may be subdivided, as the vascular into the blood-vascular and lymphatic systems; or some of them may be grouped together, as when the connective-tissue system includes the bones, cartilages, ligaments, tendons, and general areolar or cellular tissnes of the body.
  • n system Hence— In a wider sense, a concurrence of parts or organs in some function. Most if not all such systems act physiologically by the concurrence of several other lesser systems: as, the digestive system; the respiratory system; the reproductive system.
  • n system Hence— In the widest sense, the entire body as a physiological unity or anatomical whole: as, to take food into the system; to have one's system out of order.
  • n system In ascidiology, the cœnobium of those compound tunicates which have a common cloaca, as the Botryllidæ.
  • n system One of the larger divisions of the geological series: as, the Devonian system; the Silurian system. The term is used by various geologists with quite different meanings, mostly, however, as the equivalent of series: thus, Cretaceous system (the Cretaceous series).
  • n system In natural history: In the abstract, classification; any method of arranging, disposing, or setting forth animals and plants, or any series of these, in orderly sequence, as by classes, orders, families, genera, etc., with due coördination and relative subordination of the several groups; also, the principles of such classification; taxonomy: as, the morphological system; a physiological system. There is but one adequate and natural system, namely, that which classifies animals and plants by structure alone, according to their degrees of genetic relationship, upon consideration of descent with modification in the course of evolutionary processes; it is the aim of every systematist to discover this true taxonomy and set it forth by classificatory methods.
  • n system In the concrete, any zoölogical or botanical classification; any actual arrangement which is devised for the purpose of classifying and naming objects of natural history; a formal scheme, schedule, or inventory of such objects, or a systematic treatise upon them: as, the Linnean or artificial system of plants; Cuvier's system of classification; the quinarian system. Such systems are very numerous, and no two agree in every detail either of classification or of nomenclature; but all have in view the same end, which is sought to be attained by similar methods, and upon certain principles to which most naturalists now assent.
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• Interesting fact: VHS stands for Video Home System.
• • n System sis′tem anything formed of parts placed together or adjusted into a regular and connected whole: an assemblage of bodies as a connected whole: an orderly arrangement of objects according to some common law or end: regular method or order: a full and connected view of some department of knowledge: an explanatory hypothesis or theory: the universe
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• Jose Ortega Y Gasset

  

  “Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”
• Charles Dickens

  

  “Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
• Sir John Lubbock

  

  “A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
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  “An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.”
• George Bernard Shaw

  

  “Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.”
• Thomas B. Macaulay

  

  “A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.”

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