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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
Derived Forms
- componential, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- dz··Ա·پ [kom-p, uh, -, nen, -sh, uh, l], dzp·Աt adjective
- dz·nԳ· adjective
- ܲcdz·nԳ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of component1
51Թ History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The problem is that supply chains have become so international, components in any given product could be sourced from all corners of the planet.
Industry publication Screen Daily said the film was "shot, one suspects, with a touch of guerrilla ingenuity... Last Swim also has a palpably improvised component in the friends' genially pitched running banter."
Many of those companies rely on components often manufactured in Asia.
“So when you see gaps in the social services, when you see that another component of government has been taken over by an anti-person perspective and says, ‘those people aren't valued,’ librarians have stepped up.”
Federal health officials said Friday that cuts to HIV prevention efforts, a key component of many harm reduction programs, are already in motion.
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