What is "subsystem"

Usage examples of "subsystem".

Not bothering to seat himself again, he pulled up the lapboard while hovering overhead, then typed in the six-digit string that would allow Dana to enter a new course into the navigation subsystem.

He referred to a subsystem of the BQQ-5 multifunction submarine sonar.

We had some subsystems aboard the shuttles and used to rent payload space aboard them every once in a while.

Down here in the subsystems, far below the surface of Golgotha, one abandoned steel corridor looked much like any other.

Chekov took up his position at the defense subsystems monitor to bring the Enterprise’s antidetection countermeasures on line.

Every engineer in this hall, designing those nanotechnological toasters and hair dryers, wished he could have Hackworth's job in Bespoke, where concinnity was an end in itself, where no atom was wasted and every subsystem was designed specifically for the task at hand.

As is, we keep the squadrons goin' by keepin' preassembled subsystems on hand, jus' jerkin' anything that doan' work and sendin' them back to the factory.

To power the mechanical subsystems she had an improved biological fuel cell running off of her bloodstream that would never need to be replaced as long as she herself was viable.

Meanwhile, the other subsystem teams were continuing to click off the items in their checklists as sweet as honey.

While imaginetic centers concentrate on partial images of tomorrow, defining possible futures for a single industry, an organization, a city or its subsystems, however, we also need sweeping, visionary ideas about the society as a whole.

Evangeline led Finlay to another hidden door, and they made their way through narrow tunnels into the undercity, the interconnecting subsystems where the underground had dominion.

That was the skeleton of the thing, anyhow, and the teams soon began to put on some flesh, mapping out the subsystems.

The middle belt doubled as a command and control area, covering all of the spacecraft's subsystems, environmental processes, and flight operations, and as an experiment and exercise area, with a running strip around the tank's circular wall.

His attention was instantly caught by a network subsystem link —.

There is, of course, a chance that some vital subsystem will fail tomorrow, but as far as the radioactive decay of the plutonium power source is concerned, the two Voyager spacecraft should be able to return data to Earth roughly through the year 2015.