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