SUBSYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subsystem mean? 

• SUBSYSTEM (noun)
  The noun SUBSYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a system that is part of some larger system

  Familiarity information: SUBSYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system that is part of some larger system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("subsystem" is a kind of...):

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

 Context examples 

Over the next few months, Juno's mission and science teams will perform final testing on the spacecraft's subsystems, final calibration of science instruments and some science collection.

(Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter, NASA)