An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or
after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete
whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a
complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a
rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or
parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a
system of government; a system of divinity; a
system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the
solar system.
Hence, the whole scheme of created things
regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
Regular method or order; formal
arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's
business.
The collection of staves
which form a full score. See
Score,
n.
An assemblage of parts or
organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of
some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater
complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary
system, the muscular system, the digestive
system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional
unity.
One of the stellate or
irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in,
or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound
ascidians.