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System

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 mil

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Accounting 76% connected

of Account

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Anthroposophy 76% connected

Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Calendar 76% connected

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the yea…

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Containment 76% connected

That which is contained; the extent; the substance.

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Contrivance 76% connected

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

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control system 76% connected

A system that monitors and adjusts how a machine or process behaves.

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data structure 76% connected

A way of arranging information inside a program.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Discipline 76% connected

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…

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Distribution 76% connected

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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Dragnet 76% connected

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

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Economy 76% connected

The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a car…

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ecosystem 76% connected

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

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Ethic 76% connected

Alt. of Ethical

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Government 76% connected

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

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immune system 76% connected

The body’s defense system against infectious organisms and harmful substances

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Judicatory 76% connected

Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.

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Judicature 76% connected

The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.

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Judiciary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.

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Labyrinth 76% connected

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and C…

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Lattice 76% connected

Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.

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legal system 76% connected

The institutions, rules and processes through which law is made, interpreted and enforced.

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Lockage 76% connected

Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

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Logic 76% connected

The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be cond…

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Machinery 76% connected

Machines, in general, or collectively.

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Maze 76% connected

A wild fancy; a confused notion.

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Musculature 76% connected

Musculation.

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Network 76% connected

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes…

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Ontology 76% connected

That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as suc…

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Organism 76% connected

Organic structure; organization.

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Organon 76% connected

Alt. of Organum

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Program 76% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 76% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Res 76% connected

of Res

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Resonator 76% connected

Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived…

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Scaffolding 76% connected

A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.

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Shebang 76% connected

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.

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Skeleton 76% connected

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

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Staging 76% connected

A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Syntax 76% connected

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

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Theology 76% connected

The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrine…

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Theosophy 76% connected

Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by phy…

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Tract 76% connected

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.

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Venation 76% connected

The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.

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Web 76% connected

A weaver.

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Instrumentality 76% connected

The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.

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Instrumentation 76% connected

The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.

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Matter 76% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Method 76% connected

An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improvin…

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Orderliness 76% connected

The state or quality of being orderly.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Systematic 74% connected

Alt. of Systematical

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Systematic 74% connected

Alt. of Systematical

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Systemize 74% connected

To reduce to system; to systematize.

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Systemize 74% connected

To reduce to system; to systematize.

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Hierarchy 70% connected

Dominion or authority in sacred things.

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Module 70% connected

A model or measure.

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Substructure 70% connected

Same as Substruction.

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Arrangement 92% connected

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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Organization 92% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Scheme 92% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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