How to Use subsystem in a Sentence

subsystem

noun
Definition of subsystemnext
  • Go to Settings, Voice & Video, and scroll down to the audio subsystem section.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The next model is roughly twice as large, with a number of subsystems added into the design.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 May 2023
  • All this means is that Tiger Lake as a whole will need to be supported by a wider, faster memory subsystem.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Anything from further back in the quantum cloud can’t transfer over into the new subsystem.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The subsystem jobs include moving parts and materials around the plant.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Subsystem to subsystem is where the surface area connection comes in.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • Balancing this is the 800V subsystem, which allows fast DC charging.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The subsystem workers' strike could have brought production of GM's most profitable vehicles to a standstill within hours.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
  • My impression is that the Party is shrewd about recruitment for such jobs, and the vast majority of students remain outside this subsystem.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Reporting to each system lead are specialists for each subsystem.
    — David W. Brown, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And that‘s one of the reasons that this optimization end-to-end through the antenna and RF subsystem is an important part of making millimeter wave power efficient.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
  • OpenGL versions, no support for the Linux or Android subsystems, and a few missing security features.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The error had triggered a chain reaction: When the left outboard’s hydraulic subsystem stopped pumping, blast air stopped cooling the generator, and fuel and oil stopped flowing to the motor and governor.
    — Eric Lindner, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2021
  • The launch delay was primarily caused by the battery issue and the disassembly required to access and replace them amid a myriad of complex subsystems.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • No matter how much information is contained in one subsystem, the only data that can be transferred to particles in the adjoining subsystem is from the particles right at the surface where the two meet.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • Two of the system’s binaries orbit extremely close to one another, forming their own quadruple subsystem.
    — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
  • This new approach is not merely an incremental subsystem-level change, like setting new vehicle mileage or emission standards, but a whole system change.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The rover carries an entirely new subsystem to collect and prepare Martian rocks and sediment samples, including a coring drill on its arm and a rack of titanium sample tubes in its chassis.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
  • These are compelling building blocks for subsystem suppliers but are less comprehensive than Nvidia and Qualcomm's solutions.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The space agency traced the source of the communication breakdown to one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers, known as the flight data subsystem, which is responsible for packaging the science and engineering data before it’s beamed to Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Boeing is the only company that has continuously supported every ICBM subsystem — guidance, ground, propulsion and re-entry — over the lifetime of the system.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This demand-capacity balancing system was one of several software subsystems developed by our partners in the North Texas Cohort that were deployed as part of the demonstration.
    — Kamesh Namuduri, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2023
  • At that point, the competitive advantage of the early leader dissipates, and the ability to make money migrates to whoever controls the performance-defining subsystem.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 5 May 2021
  • But any subsystem of the universe will see information generation or destruction.
    — Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Our immune system has two subsystems—innate and adaptive immunity—and both have varying responses to pregnancy.
    — Caroline Silver, Parents, 19 Oct. 2023
  • PureStorage is supplying a flash subsystem growing up to an exabyte of training data, and Penguin Computing is acting as the system integrator, helping out with the setup and installation.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Her work includes designing and developing RF, microwave, and millimeter wave components and subsystems for the defense and aerospace industries.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Apr. 2023
  • It is designed to answer one question — is a frontal impact imminent? — and respond to danger by sounding a warning and, if necessary, triggering a subsystem called automatic emergency braking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Given the long-standing operational pattern, the carrier’s apparent lack of endurance suggested either that the relatively small crew was struggling, subsystems were failing, or both.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That would lead to slower indeterministic subsystem updates, which is a significant issue in a control scenario for a transonic Hyperloop pod.
    — David Wilson, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2019

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