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English

Etymology

From Middle French sisteme, systeme (modern French système (“system”)), or directly from its etymon Late Latin syst?ma (“harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma, “musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members”), from ???- (sun-, prefix meaning ‘with, together’) + ?????? (híst?mi, “to stand”) (from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”)) + -?? (-ma, suffix forming neuter nouns denoting the result of, a particular instance of, or the object of an action). The English word is cognate with Dutch systema, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?st?m/
• (General American) enPR: s?s?t?m, IPA^(key): /?s?st?m/
• Hyphenation: sys?tem

Noun

system (plural systems)

1. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure

   1. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
   2. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
   3. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
   4. (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
   5. (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
   6. (psychiatry) A set of alters, or the multiple (“the individual with multiple personalities due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder”) who contains them.
   7. (astronomy) A planetary system; a set of planets orbiting a star or star system
2. A method or way of organizing or planning.

Usage notes

In attributive use, especially relating to computer systems, the plural is more common than the singular; one normally speaks of a systems engineer and not a system engineer.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shisutemu)

Translations

See also

• network

References

Further reading

• system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• stymes

Danish

Etymology

From late Latin syst?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma, “organised whole, body”), from ??? (sún, “with, together”) + ?????? (híst?mi, “I stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syste?m/, [sy?sd?e??m]

Noun

system n (singular definite systemet, plural indefinite systemer)

1. system

Declension

See also

• system on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

References

• “system” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From English system

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis.t?m/
• Homophone: système

Noun

system m (plural systems)

1. Word used in star system.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma)

Noun

system n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system or systemer, definite plural systema or systemene)

1. a system

Derived terms

References

• “system” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma)

Noun

system n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system, definite plural systema)

1. a system

Derived terms

References

• “system” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French système, from Late Latin syst?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.st?m/

Noun

system m inan

1. system (collection of organized things; whole composed of relationships among its members)

   Synonym: uk?ad

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) systemowy

Related terms

• (noun) systematyczno??
• (adjective) systematyczny
• (adverbs) systematycznie, systemowo

Further reading

• system in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• system in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

system n

1. a system, a way or method of organizing items and knowledge
2. a computer system (primarily its hardware)
3. a system of restricted sales of alcohol, including state-owned monopoly shops

Declension

Derived terms

References

• system in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• mysets

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sustem

Etymology

From English system.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?s??sd?m/, [?s??st?m]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?s?sd?m/, [?s?st?m]

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in system is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sustem. Nevertheless, system is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, symbol/sumbol, synthesis/sunthesis for similar examples.

Noun

system f (plural systemau, not mutable)

1. system

   Synonym: cyfundrefn

Derived terms

• systematig (“systematic”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “system”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (enthálp?, “to warm in”). Coined by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, but first used in print by J. P. Dalton in 1909 in a paper titled "Researches on the Joule-Kelvin-effect, especially at low temperatures".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.??l.pi?/

Noun

enthalpy (countable and uncountable, plural enthalpies)

1. (physics, chemistry) In thermodynamics, a measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.

   ${\displaystyle H=U+pV}$, where H is enthalpy, U is internal energy, p is pressure, and V is volume.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Gibbs free energy