system

Meaning

Noun

• A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
• A method or way of organizing or planning.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Ardois system
• binary system
• biological system
• block system
• Caland system
• Chautauqua system
• complex adaptive system
• complex system
• computer system
• conceptual system
• coordinate system
• Copernican system
• Cronquist system
• Crofton system
• cultural system
• cyber-physical system
• dynamical system
• economic system
• ecosystem
• embedded system
• expert system
• Federal Reserve System
• formal system
• Ganz system
• Ghent system
• global positioning system
• information system
• isolated system
• legal system
• metric system
• multi-agent system
• nervous system
• open system
• operating system
• physical system
• political system
• prototype-based system
• Ptolemaic system
• sensory system
• social system
• sociotechnical system
• Solar System
• subsystem

Origin

• From Middle French sisteme, systeme (modern French système ("system")), or directly from its etymon Late Latin systēma ("harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system"), from Ancient Greek σύστημα ("musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members"), from σῠν- + ἵστημι (from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ("to stand (up)")) + -μᾰ. The English word is cognate with Dutch systema, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema.