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A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. [1] A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and is expressed in its functioning. Systems are the subjects of study of systems theory and other systems ...
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. Coordinated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (abbreviated BIPM from French: Bureau international des ...
In linguistics, the term nominal refers to a category used to group together nouns and adjectives based on shared properties. The motivation for nominal grouping is that in many languages nouns and adjectives share a number of morphological and syntactic properties. The systems used in such languages to show agreement can be classified broadly ...
Absolutive case (1) patient, experiencer; subject of an intransitive verb and direct object of a transitive verb. he pushed the door and it opened. Basque | Tibetan. Absolutive case (2) patient, involuntary experiencer. he pushed the door and it opened; he slipped. active-stative languages.
Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
Nomenclature. Nomenclature (UK: / noʊˈmɛŋklətʃər, nə -/, US: / ˈnoʊmənkleɪtʃər /) [1][2] is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. [3] The principles of naming vary from the relatively informal conventions of everyday speech to the internationally agreed ...
Diarchy (from Greek δι-, di-, "double", [1] and -αρχία, -arkhía, "ruled"), [2][note 1][3] duarchy, [4] or duumvirate[5][note 2] is a form of government characterized by corule, with two people ruling a polity together either lawfully or de facto, by collusion and force. The leaders of such a system are usually known as corulers.
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...