| English Dictionary: component |
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| 4 results for component |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- component
- n
- an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of
his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
Synonym(s): component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient
- 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"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
Synonym(s): part, portion, component part, component, constituent
- 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"
Synonym(s): component, constituent, element
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Component \Com*po"nent\ (k[ocr]m*p[omac]"n[eit]nt), 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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Component \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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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
component
An {object} adhering to a {component
architecture}.
(1997-11-20)
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