- 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.
- the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.
- 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.
- a feature determined by componential analysis.
- being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system.
- a constituent part or aspect of something more complex
- 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
- forming or functioning as a part or aspect; constituent
