system
英 ['sɪstəm]
美['sɪstəm]
- n. 制度，体制；系统；方法
英英释意
- 1. a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;
- "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
- 2. 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"
- 3. 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"
- 4. a procedure or process for obtaining an objective;
- "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
- 5. a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts;
- "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
- 6. 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"
- 7. (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"
- 8. the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole;
- "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
- 9. 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"
