spoils system
— Noun
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～ the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
somatosensory system
— Noun
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～ the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
somatic sensory system
— Noun
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～ the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
sound system
— Noun
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～ a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound
sprinkler system
— Noun
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～ a system for extinguishing fires; water from a network of overhead pipes is released through nozzles that open automatically with the rise in temperature
speaker system
— Noun
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～ electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
support system
— Noun
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～ a network of facilities and people who interact and remain in informal communication for mutual assistance; a network that enables you to live in a certain style
subway system
— Noun
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～ an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
sympathetic nervous system
— Noun
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～ originates in the thoracic regions of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the parasympathetic: reduces digestive secretions; speeds the heart; contracts blood vessels
system command
— Noun
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～ a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program
system call
— Noun
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～ an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor
system
— Noun
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～ (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"
system
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～ a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
system administrator
— Noun
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～ a person in charge of managing and maintaining a computer system of telecommunication system (as for a business or institution)
system
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～ 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"
system
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～ a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion"
system
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～ 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"
system
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～ a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
system
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～ the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
system clock
— Noun
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～ an electronic device in a computer that issues a steady high-frequency signal that synchronizes all the internal components