To circumvent rules, regulations, or conventions, usually by finding loopholes.

(science fiction) The Solar System

A technique for drawing diagrams of syntactic structure, based on a subject and a verbal predicate, with modifiers written on slanted lines leading off from the words they modify.

A particular gambling strategy used in roulette, involving working through a list of numbers that sum to a total.

plural of systematic element name.

A system of theatrical rigging, using ropes, blocks, etc., allowing the stage crew to fly (hoist) components such as curtains, lights and scenery.

(geomorphology) pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin

A system for managing contracts.

(rail transport) On railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are run by the guidance of electric signals so that no train enters a section or block before the preceding train has left it.

An electromechanical system with nanometre-sized components verging down to molecular- and atomic- sized in a submicron-sized system, smaller than MEMS units.