Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A constituent element, as of a system. See Synonyms at element.
- n. A part of a mechanical or electrical complex.
- n. Mathematics One of a set of two or more vectors having a sum equal to a given vector.
- n. Any of the minimum number of substances required to specify completely the composition of all phases of a chemical system.
- adj. Being or functioning as a constituent or an ingredient.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Composing; constituent; entering into the composition of.
- n. A constituent part: as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the components of granite.
- n. In mech., one of the parts of a strain, velocity, acceleration, force, etc., out of which the whole may be compounded by the principle of the parallelogram of forces, etc.—that is, by geometrical addition. See composition of forces (under composition), parallelogram of forces (under force), and resolution.
- n. A part of a whole which is so combined with other parts as to modify its distinctive character; especially, in logic, an internal part or part of comprehension; a notion contained in a complex notion.
Wiktionary
- n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
- adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
- adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
- n. A constituent part; an ingredient.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
- n. something determined in relation to something that includes it
- n. an abstract part of something
Etymologies
- From Latin compōnēns, present participle of compōnō ("assemble, put together"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin compōnēns, compōnent-, present participle of compōnere, to put together : com-, com- + pōnere, to put; see apo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And just so you know, we insisted that the vitamin component is OPTIONAL for all winners.”
“The graphic is an attempt to show that scanagent is the 'orchestration' my term component - meaning it leads the process but has to pull in other pieces to help out along the way.”
“NHibernate uses the term component for a user-defined type that is mapped to columns in the row of another entity.”
“The reel as a component is the greatest factor which determines the difference between victory and defeat when encountering really large fish.”
What type of tippet should I use for steel head when I fly fish
“Whether the component is a motor, a control valve, a star tracker, an antenna or a chip, it is simpler to look for non-American alternatives.”
“The most important all-weather component is a precision-landing system, which lets pilots safely descend for a landing even if clouds are within a few hundred feet of the ground.”
“I am creating a label component and the id is label1.”
“The researcher explains the conclusions, "The label component is very important when selecting a product, although the brand name is even more so.”
“The ID given for the label component in the page class (”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘component’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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webdev
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
SCIE - graph theory
antiparallel, convex polyhedron, nonadjacent, acyclic, isomorphic, vertex, graph, planar, homomorphism, factorization, adjacency, disjoint and 423 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Lesson 15
complement, component, conjure, emphasize, homage, impromptu, lush, medley, oblige, pretentious, prowess, rustic and 3 more...
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complement, component, conjure, emphasize, homage, impromptu, lush, medley, oblige, pretentious, prowess, rustic and 3 more...
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tech words
Group some most said words related to software development
soa, environment, production, architecture, architect, language, java, application, integration, deploy, deployment, install and 28 more...
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Programming
class, function, method, instance, value, variable, boolean, if, else, while, for, elseif and 95 more...
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