System vs. Process

A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.

Example: ‘There are eight planets in the solar system.’;

(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.

(computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.

(mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.

(music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.

(physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.

Example: ‘the digestive system’; ‘the nervous system’;

(psychiatry) A set of alters, or the multiple personalities]] due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder who contains them.

A method or way of organizing or planning.

Example: ‘Many people believed communism was a good system until the breakup of the Soviet Union.’;

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 military system; the solar system.

Example: ‘The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass.’;

Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.

Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.

The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.

An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.

One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.

a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;

Example: ‘a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going’;

instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity;

Example: ‘he bought a new stereo system’; ‘the system consists of a motor and a small computer’;

a complex of methods or rules governing behavior;

Example: ‘they have to operate under a system they oppose’; ‘that language has a complex system for indicating gender’;

a procedure or process for obtaining an objective;

Example: ‘they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation’;

a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts;

Example: ‘the body has a system of organs for digestion’;

an organized structure for arranging or classifying;

Example: ‘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’;

(physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium;

Example: ‘in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface’; ‘a system generating hydrogen peroxide’;

the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole;

Example: ‘exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system’;

an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized;

Example: ‘his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality’; ‘we can't do it unless we establish some system around here’;

a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole

Example: ‘the state railway system’; ‘fluid is pushed through a system of pipes or channels’;

a set of organs in the body with a common structure or function

Example: ‘the digestive system’;

the human or animal body as a whole

Example: ‘you need to get the cholesterol out of your system’;

a group of related hardware units or programs or both, especially when dedicated to a single application.

(in chronostratigraphy) a major range of strata that corresponds to a period in time, subdivided into series

Example: ‘the Devonian system’;

a group of celestial objects connected by their mutual attractive forces, especially moving in orbits about a centre

Example: ‘the system of bright stars known as the Gould Belt’;

short for crystal system

a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method

Example: ‘the public-school system’; ‘a multiparty system of government’;

a set of rules used in measurement or classification

Example: ‘the metric system’;

organized planning or behaviour; orderliness

Example: ‘there was no system at all in the company’;

a method of choosing one's procedure in gambling.

the prevailing political or social order, especially when regarded as oppressive and intransigent

Example: ‘don't try bucking the system’;

a set of staves in a musical score joined by a brace.

A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.

A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.

Example: ‘This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.’;

(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.

(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.

(transitive) to perform a particular process on a thing

(transitive) to retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

Example: ‘We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.’;

(transitive) to think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

To walk in a procession.

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

Example: ‘The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.’;

A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

Example: ‘Tell her the process of Antonio's end.’;

A statement of events; a narrative.

Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

Example: ‘the procedure of obtaining a driver's license’; ‘it was a process of trial and error’;

a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states;

Example: ‘events now in process’; ‘the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls’;

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

Example: ‘the process of thinking’; ‘the cognitive operation of remembering’;

a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

a mental process that you are not directly aware of;

Example: ‘the process of denial’;

a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;

Example: ‘a bony process’;

deal with in a routine way;

Example: ‘I'll handle that one’; ‘process a loan’; ‘process the applicants’;

subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;

Example: ‘process cheese’; ‘process hair’; ‘treat the water so it can be drunk’; ‘treat the lawn with chemicals’; ‘treat an oil spill’;

perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information;

Example: ‘The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech’;

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

Example: ‘He was warned that the district attorney would process him’; ‘She actioned the company for discrimination’;

shape, form, or improve a material;

Example: ‘work stone into tools’; ‘process iron’; ‘work the metal’;

deliver a warrant or summons to someone;

Example: ‘He was processed by the sheriff’;

march in a procession;

Example: ‘They processed into the dining room’;