Microsystems

micro - small
system - a placing together

A "small," "self-organizing" dissipative structure.  Examples: "quanta"(fermions, bosons); "particles"(baryons, mesons); atoms (nucliei, ions); molecules, "cells" ("self-replicating" autocatalytic sets): viriods, viruses, procaryotes; "organisms" (multi-cellular eucaryotic entities) plants, animals, fungi; "families" (genetically similar, multiple organisms functionally structured to reproduce) ant colonies, human families; "societies" (multiple "families" functionally communicating) tribes, corporations, "organizations".