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System (The Bear)
"System" is the pilot episode of The Bear, the FX/Hulu comedy-drama created by Christopher Storer; not to be confused with other works titled System. Written and directed by Storer, it opens with Carmy freeing a caged bear in a dream and was filmed at Chicago's Mr. Beef.
System 7 (group)
System 7, billed 777 in the United States, is an electronic music duo formed by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy in 1989, blending techno, trance, and ambient.
System 80+
System 80+ is an advanced pressurized water reactor design developed by Combustion Engineering in the United States, the first large PWR certified by the NRC, in 1997, and the ancestor of South Korea's APR1400.
System administrator
A system administrator, or sysadmin, is a person who installs, configures, and maintains an organization's computers, servers, and networks, handling accounts, backups, patching, security, and troubleshooting.
System bus
A system bus is a shared communication link, a single set of wires, connecting a computer's processor, memory, and input/output devices; its width is a major determinant of performance.
System call
A system call, or syscall, is the interface through which a program requests a service from the operating system kernel, such as reading a file or creating a process.
System cards
A system card is a technical transparency document published alongside an AI model or product, describing safety evaluations, red-teaming results, dangerous-capability assessments, safeguards, and known limitations.
System Ceramics
System Ceramics (SYSTEM CERAMICS S.p.A.) is an Italian manufacturer of machinery and integrated production lines for the ceramic industry, based in Fiorano Modenese, near Modena.
System context diagram
A system context diagram, or context diagram, models a system as one unit alongside external entities and major flows, deliberately omitting internal processes, data stores, and implementation detail.
System Crasher
System Crasher (Systemsprenger) is Nora Fingscheidt's 2019 German drama debut about Benni, a nine-year-old expelled from every care placement, starring Helena Zengel; it won the Berlinale Alfred Bauer Prize and eight Lolas.
System dynamics
System dynamics is a method for simulating complex systems over time using stocks, flows, and feedback loops, founded at MIT by Jay W. Forrester in the 1950s.
System F
System F, also called the polymorphic lambda calculus or second-order lambda calculus, is a typed lambda calculus in which terms abstract over types, introduced by Jean-Yves Girard around 1970 and John C. Reynolds in 1974.
System identification
System identification builds mathematical models of dynamic systems from measured input-output data rather than from physical first principles, a term coined by Lotfi Zadeh in 1956.
System integration
System integration is the engineering process of combining implemented elements such as hardware, software, data, and people, activating their interfaces so they interoperate as a whole.
System integration testing
System integration testing (SIT) is a software testing level that verifies independently developed components and systems interact correctly, targeting interface errors rather than defects in any single system.
System L (logic)
System L is a name used in formal logic for several distinct deductive systems, chiefly Łukasiewicz's Hilbert-style axiomatization of classical propositional logic and the Curien–Herbelin term syntax for classical sequent calculus.
System Management Bus
The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a two-wire serial bus, derived from I²C, that Intel defined in 1995 to link temperature sensors, fan controllers, and smart batteries in computers.
System Management Mode
System Management Mode (SMM) is a high-privilege x86 processor operating mode, entered via a System Management Interrupt, in which firmware handles power management, thermal control, and security services.
System of a Down
System of a Down (S.O.A.D), Armenian-American heavy metal band from Los Angeles: Tankian, Malakian, Odadjian, Dolmayan; four Columbia albums 1998–2005, two 2005 #1 debuts, Armenian genocide activism, no album since Hypnotize.
System of a Down (album)
System of a Down is the 1998 debut album by the American heavy metal band of the same name, produced by Rick Rubin and featuring the single "Sugar."
System of a Down discography
System of a Down discography: five studio albums by the Armenian-American metal band (1998 self-titled debut, Toxicity, Steal This Album, Mezmerize, Hypnotize), three US number-one debuts, plus the 2020 single Protect The Land / Genocidal Humanoidz; no sixth album released.
System of linear equations
A system of linear equations, also called simultaneous linear equations, is a collection of linear equations in unknown variables, solved by direct or iterative methods.
System of regional ethnic autonomy
The system of regional ethnic autonomy (民族区域自治制度) is China's arrangement under which concentrated minority areas are administered by organs of self-government, first written into law by the 1949 Common Program.
System of Rice Intensification
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is an agronomic method for rice that uses young seedlings, wide spacing, and less water to raise yields, adopted in more than 50 countries.
System on a chip
A system on a chip (SoC), also called a computer on a chip, is an integrated circuit combining a processor, memory, and peripherals on a single chip.
System optimum
System optimum is a traffic assignment principle, Wardrop's second principle, that routes traffic so the total travel time of all users on a road network is minimized.
System prompt
A system prompt, also called a system message, is a set of instructions sent to a large language model to define its role, tone, and safety constraints.
System requirements
System requirements are the stated list of hardware, operating system, firmware, and driver prerequisites a program or device needs, which vendors print on packaging or publish online.
System Shock
System Shock (1994) is Looking Glass Studios' cyberpunk first-person immersive sim, published by Origin Systems, in which a cyborg hacker battles the rogue AI SHODAN on Citadel Station; it inspired BioShock, Deus Ex, and Dishonored, and received a 2023 Nightdive remake.
System Shock 2
System Shock 2 (1999) is a first-person sci-fi horror RPG by Irrational Games with Looking Glass, set on the Von Braun, built on the Dark Engine, a commercial flop that became an acclaimed immersive sim, remastered in 2025.