ALL meanings of componential
com·po·nent
C c - noun componential Of, pertaining to, or comprising components. 1
- noun componential a constituent part; element; ingredient. 1
- noun componential a part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components. 1
- noun componential Physics. the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis. 1
- noun componential 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 componential Mathematics. a connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set. a coordinate of a vector. 1
- noun componential 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
- adjective componential being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system. 1