ALL meanings of component
com·po·nent
C c - countable noun component The components of something are the parts that it is made of. 3
- adjective component The component parts of something are the parts that make it up. 3
- noun component a constituent part or aspect of something more complex 3
- noun component 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 3
- noun component one of a set of two or more vectors whose resultant is a given vector 3
- noun component the projection of this given vector onto a specified line 3
- noun component one of the minimum number of chemically distinct constituents necessary to describe fully the composition of each phase in a system 3
- adjective component forming or functioning as a part or aspect; constituent 3
- adjective component serving as one of the parts of a whole; constituent 3
- noun component an element or ingredient 3
- noun component any of the main constituent parts, as of a high-fidelity sound system 3
- noun component any of the elements into which a vector quantity, as force or velocity, may be resolved: any vector is the sum of its elements 3
- noun Technical meaning of component (programming) An object adhering to a component architecture. 1
- noun component part: physical 1
- abbreviation COMPONENT constituent 1
- noun component part: mental 1
- noun component part of electrical circuit 1
- noun component a constituent part; element; ingredient. 1
- noun component a part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components. 1
- noun component Physics. the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis. 1
- noun component Physical Chemistry. one of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described. 1
- noun component Mathematics. a connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set. a coordinate of a vector. 1
- noun component Linguistics. one of the major subdivisions of a generative grammar: base component; transformational component; semantic component; phonological component. Compare level (def 16). a feature determined by componential analysis. 1
- noun component A part or element of a larger whole, esp. a part of a machine or vehicle. 1
- adjective component being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system. 1
- noun component A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device. 0
- adjective component Making up a larger whole; as a component word. 0
- adjective component Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo. 0