- an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- any assemblage or set of correlated members: a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters.
- an ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles, doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought: a system of philosophy.
- a coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure; organizational scheme: a system of government.
- any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure: a system of marking, numbering, or measuring; a winning system at bridge.
- due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure: There is no system in his work.
- the world or universe.
- Astronomy.
- a number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws: the solar system.
- a hypothesis or theory of the disposition and arrangements of the heavenly bodies by which their phenomena, motions, changes, etc., are explained: the Ptolemaic system; the Copernican system.
- Biology.
- an assemblage of organs or related tissues concerned with the same function: the nervous system; the digestive system.
- the entire human or animal body considered as a functioning unit: an ingredient toxic to the system.
- one's psychological makeup, especially with reference to desires or preoccupations: to get something out of one's system.
- a method or scheme of classification: the Linnean system of plants.
- the prevailing structure or organization of society, business, or politics or of society in general; establishment: to work within the system instead of trying to change it.
- a major division of rocks comprising sedimentary deposits and igneous masses formed during a single geologic period.
- a combination of two or more phases, as a binary system, each of which consists of one or more substances, that is attaining or is in equilibrium.
- a working combination of hardware, software, and data communications devices.
- either of the two groups of 16 playing squares on four alternate columns.
- a group or combination of interrelated, interdependent, or interacting elements forming a collective entity; a methodical or coordinated assemblage of parts, facts, concepts, etc
- any scheme of classification or arrangement
- a network of communications, transportation, or distribution
- a method or complex of methods
- orderliness; an ordered manner
- society seen as an environment exploiting, restricting, and repressing individuals
- an organism considered as a functioning entity
- any of various bodily parts or structures that are anatomically or physiologically related
- one's physiological or psychological constitution
- any assembly of electronic, electrical, or mechanical components with interdependent functions, usually forming a self-contained unit
- a group of celestial bodies that are associated as a result of natural laws, esp gravitational attraction
- a sample of matter in which there are one or more substances in one or more phases
- a point of view or doctrine used to interpret a branch of knowledge
- one of a group of divisions into which crystals may be placed on the basis of the lengths and inclinations of their axes
- a stratigraphical unit for the rock strata formed during a period of geological time. It can be subdivided into series
