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all systems are go Definition


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system
noun
    1. A set of interconnected or interrelated parts forming a complex whole.
      Example: the transport system
      Example: the human digestive system
    2. An arrangement of mechanical, electrical or electronic parts functioning as a unit.
      Example: a stereo system
    3. A way of working; a method or arrangement of organization or classification.
      Example: a more efficient filing system
      Example: the capitalist system
      Thesaurus: method, mode, scheme, way, custom, practice, modus operandi, plan, procedure, routine, technique; organization, structure, protocol, framework, hierarchy, order, construct, edifice, taxonomy.
    4. Efficiency of organization; methodicalness; orderliness.
      Example: You need to get some system into your exam revision
    5. One's mind or body regarded as a set of interconnected parts.
      Example: get the anger out of your system
    6. Society, or the network of institutions that control it, usually regarded as an oppressive force.
      Form: the system
    7. astron.
      A group of heavenly bodies consisting of a central body (eg a sun or a planet) and others (planets or moons respectively) which move around it under the influence of their mutual attraction.
      Example: the solar system
    8. geol.
      The basic unit of classification of rock strata formed during a single period of geological time, ranking above series (sense 8) and characterized by its fossil content.
    9. An interrelated body of doctrines or theories; a full and connected view of some branch of knowledge.
Idiom: all systems go (all systems are go)
    colloq
    Everything is ready A 20c: originally astronautics jargon.
Etymology: 17c: from Greek systema.



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