"What we're losing in dropping Cocom controls is a well-defined system that has been working for a long time."

Civil servants are found in a well-defined system of ranks.

Apart from these community governments set up by the Bali, the people also had a well-defined social and economic system which rendered their societies stable.

There are well-defined systems in place for naming chemical species.

Some of these applications are general concepts, while others are well-defined systems.

He came up with a crisp, well-defined system of how women can dress not only next season, but for many seasons thereafter.

The laws of thermodynamics apply to well-defined systems.

Althalus didn't really have a very well-defined system of belief.

A similarly well-defined system based on the reference ellipsoid for Mars.

At a company that for generations had a well-defined system of succession, the situation has left employees confused about who is in command.