component
a constituent part; element; ingredient.
a part of a mechanical or electrical system: They checked the pads, rotors, and other components of my car's brake system.
Physics. the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.
Physical Chemistry. one of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described.
Mathematics.
a connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set.
a coordinate of a vector.
Linguistics.
one of the major subdivisions of a generative grammar: base component;transformational component;semantic component;phonological component.: Compare level (def. 17).
a feature determined by componential analysis.
being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system.
Origin of component
1synonym study For component
Other words from component
- com·po·nen·tial [kom-puh-nen-shuhl], /ˌkɒm pəˈnɛn ʃəl/, com·po·nen·tal, adjective
- com·po·nent·ed, adjective
- sub·com·po·nent, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for component
/ (kəmˈpəʊnənt) /
a constituent part or aspect of something more complex: a component of a car
Also called: element any electrical device, such as a resistor, that has distinct electrical characteristics and that may be connected to other electrical devices to form a circuit
maths
one of a set of two or more vectors whose resultant is a given vector
the projection of this given vector onto a specified line
one of the minimum number of chemically distinct constituents necessary to describe fully the composition of each phase in a system: See phase rule
forming or functioning as a part or aspect; constituent
Origin of component
1Derived forms of component
- componential (ˌkɒmpəˈnɛnʃəl), adjective
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