Open system

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What Wikipedia says

An open system (also known as a flow system) is a system that has external interactions. Such interactions can take the form of information, energy, or material transfers into or out of the system boundary, depending on the discipline which defines the concept.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Open system (systems theory)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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