Wiktionary
alt. A group of related components that are part of a larger system. n. A group of related components that are part of a larger system.
Usage examples of "sub-system".
Every sub-system of the landing craft is exquisitely designed to withstand the shock of arrival.
Failure of any sub-system to function after touch-down could destroy human lives, not to mention billions of dollars worth of apparatus and tens of thousands of man-years of labor.
The result of such a policy will be to produce far more individualized human beings, more differences among people, more varied ideas, political and social sub-systems, and more color.
One such sub-system had nearly killed Ghosn only five months earlier, but there was none here.
Montgomery Scott, and continued around to the ship's environmental control console, engineering sub-systems monitor station, the visual display monitor—a viewing screen which could show any part of the ship's exterior, but which now showed cloud-wreathed Kyros turning in its orbit some sixteen hundred kilometers below—then on to the defense sub-systems monitor, defense and weapons console, navigation, main computer and science station, now manned by the second science officer, Lt.
Montgomery Scott, and continued around to the ship's environmental control console, engineering sub-systems monitor station, the visual display monitora viewing screen which could show any part of the ship's exterior, but which now showed cloud-wreathed Kyros turning in its orbit some sixteen hundred kilometers belowthen on to the defense sub-systems monitor, defense and weapons console, navigation, main computer and science station, now manned by the second science officer, Lt.