polysystem

A group of systems that function together as a system.

Noun

  1. A group of systems that function together as a system.
    • […] the fact that the theatre is a polysystem, which brings together signs from a variety of systems such as (as here) the costumic, the gestural, the expressive, the aural and the verbal or linguistic — to formulate...

Origin

From poly- + system.

Forms

polysystems