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Component

Component Meaning & Definition
Component Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Component?

[n] an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"
[n] something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Component: component part | constituent | constituent | element | element | factor | ingredient | part | portion

Related Terms | Find terms related to Component: actuator | adjunct | air | amplifier | anode | appurtenance | aspect | atom | atomic particles | base | brute matter | building block | capacitator | cathode | chemical element | circumstance | clock | constituent | contents | contingent | control relay | control resistor | converter | cross section | detachment | detail | division | dole | earth | effector | electrode | element | elementary | elementary particle | elementary unit | factor | feature | feedback amplifier | filament | fire | fixings | formative | fraction | fundamental particle | generator | grid | hyle | hypostasis | inductor | ingredient | installment | integral | integrant | item | magnetic relay | makings | material | material world | materiality | matter | meter relay | modulator | molecule | monad | natural world | nature | oscillator | parcel | part | part and parcel | particular | percentage | photocathode | physical world | plate | plenum | portion | pressure transducer | quadrant | quarter | quota | random sample | reactor | regenerator | relay | reluctance amplifier | remainder | resistor | sample | sampling | section | sector | segment | servo amplifier | share | specialty | stuff | subdivision | subgroup | subspecies | substance | substratum | the four elements | thermal timing relay | transducer | transmitter | trigatron | unit of being | water

See Also | accessory | addition | appurtenance | audio | auto part | be all and end all | be-all and end-all | car part | computer hardware | crystal | detail | division | hardware | heating element | improver | ingredient | item | landside | language unit | linguistic unit | makings | member | meronymy | module | part | part | part to whole relation | particular | pel | picture element | pixel | point | point | portion | relation | remainder | residual | residue | residuum | rest | retrofit | section | spare | spare part | spark gap | subpart | substance | supplement | unit | video

Component In Webster's Dictionary

\Com*po"nent\ (k[o^]m*p[=o]"nent), a. [L. componens, p. pr. of componere. See {Compound}, v. t.] Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. --Sir I. Newton.
\Com*po"nent\, n. A constituent part; an ingredient. {Component of force} (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved.

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