Online Definition–adjective | 1. | operating under the direct control of, or connected to, a main computer. |
| 2. | connected by computer to one or more other computers or networks, as through a commercial electronic information service or the Internet. |
| 3. | of or denoting a business that transmits electronic information over telecommunications lines: an on-line bookstore. |
| 4. | available or operating on a computer or computer network: an on-line dictionary. |
| 5. | by means of or using a computer: on-line shopping. |
| 6. | Radio. (of a network) supplying affiliated stations with all or a substantial part of their programming. |
| 7. | Television. of or pertaining to the final editing of a videotaped program. |
| 8. | done or accomplished while in operation or active service: on-line maintenance. |
| 9. | located on major routes or rail lines: on-line
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–adverb | 10. | with or through a computer, esp. over a network. |
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Payment Definition–noun | 1. | something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense. |
| 3. | reward or punishment; requital. |
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System Definition–noun | 1. | an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system. |
| 2. | any assemblage or set of correlated members: a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters. |
| 3. | an ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles, doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought: a system of philosophy. |
| 4. | a coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure; organizational scheme: a system of government. |
| 5. | any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure: a system of marking, numbering, or measu
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| 6. | due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure: There is no system in his work. |
| 8. | Astronomy. | a. | a number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws: the solar system. |
| b. | a hypothesis or theory of the disposition and arrangements of the heavenly bodies by which their phenomena, motions, changes, etc., are explained: the Ptolemaic system; the Copernican system. |
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| 9. | Biology. | a. | an assemblage of organs or related tissues concerned with the same function: the nervous system; the digestive system. |
| b. | the entire human or animal body considered as a functioning unit: an ingredient toxic to the system. |
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| 10. | one's psychological ma
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| 11. | a method or scheme of classification: the Linnean system of plants. |
| 12. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) the prevailing structure or organization of society, business, or politics or of society in general; establishment (usually prec. by the): to work within the system instead of trying to change it. |
| 13. | <
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| 14. | Physical Chemistry. a combination of two or more phases, as a binary system, each of which consists of one or more substances, that is attaining or is in equilibrium. |
| 15. | Computers. a working combination of hardware, software, and data communications devices. |
| 16. | Checkers. either of the two groups of 16 playing squares on four alternate columns. |
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