• 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"
• 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"
• the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his System"
• a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a System of organs for digestion"
• 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"
• 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"
• a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a System that did not depend on cooperation"
• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast System of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
• (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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