system

noun12

1. •
   a group of connected parts that work together and form one whole

   • The bass and treble clefs combined, include all the sounds belonging to our musical system, as they appear on a 6½-octave pianoforte, extending from C C C in the bass to F in altissimo. — 1848
2. •
   A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
3. •
   A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
4. •
   A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
5. •
   A set of body organs having a particular function.
6. •
   A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.

   • But that alter often turns out to be relatively recent and fairly peripheral in the multiple's total system of alters. — 1995
7. •
   A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity.

   • There are eight planets in the solar system.
8. •
   A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.

   • In the footnote attached to this statement Rosen refers to the “hypnotic” quality of Kojève’s system. — 2019
9. •
   A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
10. •
    A socioeconomic formation.
11. •
    A method or way of organizing or planning.

    • Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.
12. •
    The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.

    • “Overwork started his illness, kept it alight, and killed him, poor devil. Write him off to the System - one man to do the work of two-and-a-half men.” — 1888