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système — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • establishment noun A business, organization, or institution, especially one with a physical location.
  • period noun A stretch of time, or a particular era seen as a distinct whole.
  • scheme noun A plan for how to do something, especially an organized or official one.
  • system noun A set of related parts that work together as a whole.

Senses

système is used for these senses in English:

  • period (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.

establishment — full definition

  1. noun A business, organization, or institution, especially one with a physical location.
  2. noun The act of setting something up permanently, or the state of being set up.
  3. noun The powerful, entrenched group in a society or field that tends to protect the existing order.

period — full definition

  1. noun A stretch of time, or a particular era seen as a distinct whole.
  2. noun The punctuation mark "." used to end a sentence or mark an abbreviation.
  3. noun A monthly episode of menstruation.
  4. noun One of the timed segments a game, class, or match is divided into.
  5. intj Used to show a statement is final, with nothing more to add.

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