polysystem

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

poly- +‎ system

Noun[edit]

polysystem (plural polysystems)

  1. A group of systems that function together as a system.
    • 1984, The New Orleans Review, volume 11, page 123:
      […] the fact that the theatre is a polysystem, which brings together signs from a variety of systems such as (as here) the costumic, the gestural, the expressive, the aural and the verbal or linguistic — to formulate its message.
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