instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | the act of containing; keeping something from spreading |
an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor |
a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts | a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully |
the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole | |
a complex of methods or rules governing behavior | |
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 | |