System Definition
sĭstəm
systems
noun
systems
A set or arrangement of things so related or connected as to form a unity or organic whole.
A solar system, school system, system of highways.
Webster's New World
A set of facts, principles, rules, etc. classified or arranged in a regular, orderly form so as to show a logical plan linking the various parts.
Webster's New World
An organized set of interrelated ideas or principles.
Kant's philosophical system.
American Heritage
A social, economic, or political organizational form.
The feudal system.
American Heritage
A method or plan of classification or arrangement.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
get something out of one's system
- to free oneself as from an emotional attachment to or obsession with something
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to System
- get something out of one's system
Origin of System
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Late Latin systēma systēmat- from Greek sustēma from sunistanai to combine sun- syn- histanai set up, establish stā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From late Latin systÄ“ma, from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sustÄ“ma, “organised whole, body"), from σύν (syn, “with, together") + ἵστημι (histÄ“mi, “I stand").
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