the act of devising something | instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity |
a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized |
any improvised arrangement for temporary use | a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts |
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole |
the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | a complex of methods or rules governing behavior |
an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | a procedure or process for obtaining an objective |
| an organized structure for arranging or classifying |
| a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole |
| (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium |