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