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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024com•po•nent /kəmˈpoʊnənt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a basic or fundamental part from which something is made.
- Electricitya part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components.
adj. [before a noun] - being or serving as an element in something larger; constituent: component parts.
com•po•nen•tial /ˌkɑmpəˈnɛnʃəl/USA pronunciation adj. See -pon-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024com•po•nent (kəm pō′nənt, kom-),USA pronunciation n. - a constituent part; element;
ingredient. - a part of a mechanical or electrical system:hi-fi components.
- Physicsthe projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.
- Chemistry[Physical Chem.]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; semantic component;phonological component.Cf. level (def. 17).
- a feature determined by componential analysis.
adj. - being or serving as an element (in something larger);
composing; constituent:the component parts of a computer system.
- Latin compōnent- (stem of compōnēns, present participle of compōnere to put together), equivalent. to com- com- + pōn(ere) to put + -ent- -ent
- 1555–65
com•po•nen•tial (kom′pə nen′shəl),USA pronunciation com′po•nen′tal, adj. com•po′nent•ed, adj. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See element.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: component /kəmˈpəʊnənt/ n - a constituent part or aspect of something more complex
Also called: element 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- one of a set of two or more vectors whose resultant is a given vector
- one of the minimum number of chemically distinct constituents necessary to describe fully the composition of each phase in a system
See phase rule adj - forming or functioning as a part or aspect; constituent
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin compōnere to put together, from pōnere to place, putcomponential /ˌkɒmpəˈnɛnʃəl/ adj |