the English Language 1.Education: Any assemblage or set of correlated members: a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters. 2.Intellectual: An ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles, doctrines. or the like, in a particular field of knowledge or thought: a system of philosophy.
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The Random House Dictionary of
the English Language 3.Any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure: a system of marking, numbering, or measuring. 4.Due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure: e.g. There is no system in his work. 5.A number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws: the solar system.
The Random House Dictionary of
the English Language 6.Astronomy: 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.
The Random House Dictionary of
the English Language 7.Biology: (a) An assemblage of parts of organs of the same or similar tissues, or concerned with the same function: the nervous system ; the digestive system. (b) The entire human or animal body: e.g. an ingredient toxic to the system;
The Random House Dictionary of
the English Language (8) Ones personality, character, etc : to get the meanness out of ones system. (9) Geology: A major division of rock comprising sedimentary deposits and igneous masses formed during a geological period.
Essential English Dictionary
plus Language in Action supplement, Collins. 1.A method or set of methods for doing or organizing something: a new system of production or distribution. 2. The manner in which an institution or aspect of society has been arranged: the Scottish legal system. 3.The manner in which the parts of something fit or function together; structure: disruption of the earths weather system. (Global Warming)
The Readers Digest
Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1964
The Readers Digest Great
Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1964 1.Complex whole, set of connected things or parts, organized body of material or immaterial things; (physics) group of bodies moving about one another in space under some dynamic law, as that of gravitation, esp. (astron.) group of heavenly bodies moving in orbits about central body ; (boil.) set of organs or parts in animal body of same or similar structure or sub serving same function, the animal body as an organized whole.
The Readers Digest Great
Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1964
2.Department of knowledge or belief
considered as organized whole; comprehensive body of doctrines, beliefs, theories, practices, etc. forming particular philosophy, religion, form of government, etc.; scheme or method of classification, notation, etc; (crystal) any of 6 general methods or types in which substances crystallize.
Porphyry To Epithermal Transition in The Altar Cu - (Au-Mo) Deposit, Argentina, Studied by Cathodoluminescence, LA-ICP-MS, and Fluid Inclusion Analysis