EGAVE

system

About 395.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    the digestive system the nervous system
  2. noun A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
  3. noun A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
  4. noun A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
  5. noun A set of body organs having a particular function.
    the digestive system the nervous system
  6. noun A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.
  7. noun A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity.
    There are eight planets in the solar system.
  8. noun A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.

Similar words

organisation organization arrangement unit system of rules regime polity establishment dispositif regimen

Often followed by

of is and in to for that was which

Word family

systemless systems

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