n.
group of items serving a common purpose
1) an air-conditioning; amplifying; brake; data-processing; filing; guidance; heating; highway (AE), motorway (BE), road; intercommunication; life-support; number; public-address; railroad (AE), railway (BE); sprinkler; steering; transit (esp. AE), transport (esp. BE)
form of organization, principles pertaining to a form of organization
system
2) a capitalist; caste; communist; Copernican; economic; educational, school; electoral; governmental; hierarchical; honor; merit; multiparty; one-party; patronage; philosophical; political; quota; seniority; socialist; spoils; two-party system
3) (colloq.) (AE) a buddy system
4) under a system (under our political system)
5) (misc.) to beat the system ('to circumvent established procedures')
group of items forming a unified whole in nature
6) an ecosystem; mountain; river; solar system
functionally related group of bodily elements or structures
7) the cardiovascular; central nervous; circulatory; digestive; excretory; genito-urinary; immune; reproductive; respiratory system
classification
type of measurement
8) a decimal; metric; monetary; taxonomic system
group of substances in or approaching equilibrium
(chemistry)
9) a binary; ternary system
set of meteorological conditions
10) a high-pressure; low-pressure system
procedure
11) the touch system (of typing)
elements that allow the operation of a computer
12) to boot up; reboot a system
13) a disk operating, operating system
misc.
14) systems analysis; systems theory