subsystem
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of subsystem
Vocabulary lists containing subsystem
Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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The outage, caused by an internal subsystem issue, affected AWS’s US-East-1 region and global services relying on its infrastructure.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
“The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers,” the company said on its health dashboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
The black box, being defined as part of a subsystem, is allowed to organize itself however it likes as long as it fulfills its function in the system.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025
As the subsystem expands, the amount of entanglement only grows along the boundary between the subsystem and the larger system.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
The vascular system, however, while likened to a system of rubber tubes, must be regarded as a very live system, every subsystem having the property of separate control.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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