<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system</li><li>Synonyms: unit</li><li>any assemblage or set of correlated members: a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters</li><li>an ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles, doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought: a system of philosophy</li><li>a coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure; organizational scheme: a system of government</li><li>any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure: a system of marking, numbering, or measuring; a winning system at bridge</li><li>due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure: There is no system in his work</li><li>the world or universe</li><li>Synonyms: cosmos</li><li>Astronomy: a number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws: the solar system</li><li>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</li><li>Biology: an assemblage of organs or related tissues concerned with the same function: the nervous system; the digestive system</li><li>the entire human or animal body considered as a functioning unit: an ingredient toxic to the system</li><li>one's psychological makeup, especially with reference to desires or preoccupations: to get something out of one's system</li><li>a method or scheme of classification: the Linnean system of plants</li><li>Usually the system: the prevailing structure or organization of society, business, or politics or of society in general; establishment: to work within the system instead of trying to change it</li><li>Geology: a major division of rocks comprising sedimentary deposits and igneous masses formed during a single geologic period</li><li>Physical Chemistry: a combination of two or more phases, as a binary system, each of which consists of one or more substances, that is attaining or is in equilibrium</li><li>Computers: a working combination of hardware, software, and data communications devices</li><li>Checkers: either of the two groups of 16 playing squares on four alternate columns</li></ul>