subsystemn.

1756 G. Anderson Remonstr. against Lord Viscount Bolingbroke’s Philos. Relig. vii. 158 If there are any sub-systems made of the Christian revelation, which ascribe to God either partiality or cruelty, I renounce them.

1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 645 In the Nudibranchiate Mollusks there are distinguishable three peripheral specializations, the portal, the branchial, and the renal. In these subsystems an approximation to a capillary reticulation of the conducting channels occurs.

1879 Geol. Mag. 6 4 The rock-groups formed by their including strata have been separated—at least as distinct sub-systems—in all parts of the world.

1922 F. F. Fowle Standard Handbk. Electr. Engineers (ed. 4) § 4 The electrostatic subsystem was established on the basis of the unit quantity of electricity such that it repelled its prototype at a distance of ́1 cm.

1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society i. 1 This book is..an attempt to analyse..the form and functioning of a sub-system, the village, within a wider system, the totality of Ndembu society.

1993 Computing 7 Oct. 36 (advt.) A local bus takes peripherals off the I/O bus and connects them, together with the CPU and the memory subsystem, to a wider, faster pathway for data.

2010 S. Bennett Mod. Diesel Technol. xii. 225/1 A common cause of air being sucked into the fuel subsystem is double gasketing of the primary filter.