System

1. Any recognizable delimited aggregate of dynamic elements that are in some way interconnected and interdependent and that continue to operate together according to certain laws and in such a way as to produce some characteristic total effect. A system, in other words, is something that is concerned with some kind of activity and preserves a kind of integration and unity; and a particular system can be recognized as distinct from other systems to which, however, it may be dynamically related. Systems may be complex, they may be made up of interdependent sub-systems, each of which, though less autonomous than the entire aggregate, is nevertheless fairly distinguishable in operation.

2. A regular interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole. A set of elements standing in interaction as expressed by a system of mathematical equations or an organization seen as a system of mutually dependent variables. A system may be characterized by: a particular relationship between elements which turns a mere collection of elements into something that may be called an assemblage; a pattern in the set of relationships which turns the assemblage into a systematically arranged assemblage; and a unified purpose which turns the systematically arranged assemblage into a system.

3. A set of objects together with relationships between the objects and between their attributes. Objects are parts or components of the system such as: atoms, stars, switches, masses, bones, neurons, gases, genes, etc., including abstract objects such as: mathematical variables, equations, rules and laws, processes, etc, and social actors such as: individuals, groups, communities, nations, etc.

4. Some form in structure or operation, concept or function, composed of united and integrated parts.

5. Any set of interrelating elements, including: any one of the concrete systems from solar system to molecule and electron, from cell to organism, together with personality, small group, formal organization, political system, economic system, and social system; a system of rules or procedures; a theoretical system bringing together various concepts and generalizations for the purpose of description, explanation or prediction.

6. A system is the first subdivision of Universe into a conceivable entity. It divides all the Universe into six parts, namely all the universal events occurring: geometrically outside the system; geometrically inside the system; nonsimultaneously, remotely, and unrelatedly prior to the system events; nonsimultaneously, remotely, and unrelatedly subsequent to the system events; synchronously and or coincidentally to and with the systematic set of events uniquely considered; and all the geometrically arrayed set of events constituting the system itself. All systems are individually conceptual polyhedral integrities; a system is a patterning of enclosure consisting of a conceptual aggregate of recalled experience items, or events. Systems have insideness and outsideness and are a closed configuration of vectors (conceptually representing all the interrelationships of system foci). They are each a pattern of forces constituting a geometrical integrity that returns upon itself in a plurality of directions, and are therefore interiorally concave and exteriorally convex, complex and finite.