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component
[ kuhm-poh-nuhnt, kom- ]
noun
- 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: Compare level ( def 17 ).
base component;
transformational component;
semantic component;
phonological component.
- a feature determined by componential analysis.
adjective
- being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent:
the component parts of a computer system.
component
/ kəmˈpəʊnənt; ˌkɒmpəˈnɛnʃəl /
noun
- a constituent part or aspect of something more complex
a component of a car
- Also calledelement 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
adjective
- forming or functioning as a part or aspect; constituent
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Derived Forms
- componential, adjective
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Other Words From
- com·po·nen·tial [kom-p, uh, -, nen, -sh, uh, l], compo·nental adjective
- com·ponent·ed adjective
- subcom·ponent noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of component1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of component1
C17: from Latin compōnere to put together, from pōnere to place, put
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See element.
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