systems
SIS-tuhmz/ˈsɪstəmz/
- 1Plural of system.
Engineers tested the heating and cooling systems before the building opened.
Modern aircraft rely on redundant control systems for safety.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, that follows system into each of its countable fields. Engineers count computer systems, mathematicians solve systems of equations, musicians read systems of braced staves, and anatomists name the body's systems by what they do. In discussions of multiple personalities, systems can also mean several people, each one a single system of alters.
systems is a form of system
system, noun: A group or set of related parts that work together as a single, complex whole. Full entry
- Forms
- systemsystems plural
- Spelling
- system → systems: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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