componentryn.
The component parts of a mechanical or other system, considered collective.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > components
componentry1959
1959 Economist 14 Mar. 962/1 Artificial componentry, for example, is a great deal faster than the natural mechanism of the brain.
1965 J. S. Bruner in Amer. Psychol. XX. 1010/2 We have too easily assumed..that the early version of what was taught did not matter much, one thing being much like another and reducible to a pattern of association, to stimulus-response connections, or to our favorite molecular componentry.
1980 Truck & Bus Transportation Mar. 64/1 Caterpillar have also produced their own collection of booklets covering a very wide range of componentry functions.
1982 Financial Times 2 Dec. 11/7 Tungsram gets 70 per cent of its componentry from Britain.
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