System

cosmos 4th November 2016 at 2:43pm

A Set of components interacting (communicating) in some ways.

If their interactions affect the behaviour of the system, it is known as a complex system.

A system of biological parts is a Biological system

There are of course many many more examples of systems. In fact a "system" is more of a perspective through which one can look at something, that allows one to organize its study. This is the aim of the Systems sciences.