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单词 component
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componentadj.n.

Brit. /kəmˈpəʊnənt/, U.S. /kəmˈpoʊnənt/
Etymology: < Latin compōnent-em, present participle of compōnĕre to compose.
A. adj.
Composing, constituting, making up, constituent.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > of or relating to components > forming (a) component part(s)
partiala1398
integral1551
integrant1637
constitutivea1640
elemental1639
constituting1641
integrating1654
constituent1660
component1664
compounding1682
contained1696
organical1770
inbuilt1961
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 57 Camphire..spends itself by continually effluviating its own Component Particles.
1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. ii. 102 Words, as distinguished from their component letters or syllables.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxiii Thy component dust.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. 4 The separation of government into its two component parts, Legislature and the Executive.
1871 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. xlviii The brilliancy of the component stars is nearly equal.
B. n.
1. ? One who makes composition; a compounder. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun] > partial payment > one who
compounder1542
component1563
1563 E. Grindal Let. 3 Oct. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 196 If, because the Queen's Majesty..pardoned the components, that sum be now cast into the arrearages, it were an unreasonable matter.
2.
a. A constituent element or part.Logically applicable only in plural to the whole of the elements or parts of a compound body; but in practice each element is called a component.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component
limbc1000
membera1382
elementc1386
parcelc1395
ingredientc1460
partc1530
ingredience1577
principle1594
simple1603
composer1610
partiment1641
component1644
constitutive1647
composite1657
integral1659
ingredient1674
aggregant1749
constituent1757
congredient1767
factor1816
integrant1825
inclusion1845
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. x. 432 Single apprehensions [being] the components of iudgements.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. Compounded or double words..[which] obtain a signification different from that which the components have in their simple state.
1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) I. 461 Revenge made a great component of his..character.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 38 The red component of this light is, as it were, abstracted from it.
b. Applied spec. to the separate parts of motor cars and bicycles. Hence attributive and in other combinations, as component-maker, component-plant; component-built adj.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles
component1896
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > any separate part
component1896
1896 Daily News 2 July 2/5 Manufacturers of cycle and cycle components.
1897 Daily News 29 Mar. 8/7 Cycle tube and component makers.
1907 Daily Chron. 18 Jan. 9/2 A component-built machine.
1925 Morris Owner's Man. 95 The replacing of any worn component by a new one.
1970 Times 27 June 11/2 Stocks pile up as strikes halt motor-components.
1970 Times 27 June 11/2 Midland car and component plants face yet another threat from the three-day strike of clerks.
1970 Times 7 July 11/2 No major manufacturer has ever been forced to stop operations because of a strike in a components plant.
3. Mechanics, etc. One of two or more vectors which together are equivalent to any given vector; esp. the effective value of a vector in any given direction.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > tensor > [noun] > vector > component
component1806
1806 O. G. Gregory Treat. Mech. I. i. ii. 24 Resolve each of the forces into components respectively parallel to these co-ordinates.
1806 O. G. Gregory Treat. Mech. I. i. ii. 25 The two components of the resultant R referred to the same axis, are evidently R cos. r and R sin. r.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 699/1 It is very generally convenient to resolve forces into components parallel to three lines at right angles to each other, each such resolution being effected by multiplying by the cosine of the angle concerned.
1957 B. I. Bleany & B. Bleaney Electr. & Magn. (1963) xx. 546 Each vector makes a constant angle with this direction, and the component of the angular momentum in this direction is therefore constant.
4. Physical Chemistry. Each of the constituents of a system which are not necessarily identified individually but are defined as equal in number to the minimum number of species required to define the composition of the system.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > [noun] > systems > component
component1876
1876 J. W. Gibbs in Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. III. 124 The component substances S1, S2,..Sn must now be taken to include not only the independently variable components (actual or possible) of all parts of the given mass as initially existing, but also the components of all the new parts.
1904 A. Findlay Phase Rule ii. 12 As the components of a system there are to be chosen the smallest number of independently variable constituents by means of which the composition of each phase participating in the state of equilibrium can be expressed in the form of a chemical equation.
1913 A. G. Bloxam & S. J. Lewis Bloxam's Chem. (ed. 10) 338 The Phase Rule of Willard Gibbs..is expressed in the equation P + F = C + 2,..where P is the number of phases, F the number of degrees of freedom, and C the number of components.
1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. (ed. 2) vi. 475 If ammonium chloride is vaporized into a vacuum, the system consists of one component only, in spite of the dissociation of the vapor into ammonia and hydrogen chloride; the resultant composition of the gaseous phase is still represented by NH4Cl.
1978 P. W. Atkins Physical Chem. x. 284 How many components are present in the system NaCl/water? One answer might be two, the salt and the water. Another answer might be three, the cation, the anion, and the water... The number of Na+ ions must equal the number of Cl ions. This is a constraint on the composition, and so the three species give rise to only two components.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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