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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Component \Com*po"nent\ (k[o^]m*p[=o]"nent), adjective [L. componens, p. pr. of componere. See {Compound}, verb (used with an object)] Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
The component parts of natural bodies. --Sir I. Newton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Component \Com*po"nent\, noun A constituent part; an ingredient.
{Component of force} (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
component
noun
1: an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech" [syn: {constituent}, {element}, {factor}, {ingredient}]
2: something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach" [syn: {part}, {portion}, {component part}]
3: an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" [syn: {constituent}, {element}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "component": actuator, adjunct, air, amplifier, anode, appurtenance, aspect, atom, atomic particles, base, brute matter, building block, capacitator, cathode, chemical element, circumstance, clock, constituent, contents, contingent, control relay, control resistor, converter, cross section, detachment, detail, division, dole, earth, effector, electrode, element, elementary, elementary particle, elementary unit, factor, feature, feedback amplifier, filament, fire, fixings, formative, fraction, fundamental particle, generator, grid, hyle, hypostasis, inductor, ingredient, installment, integral, integrant, item, magnetic relay, makings, material, material world, materiality, matter, meter relay, modulator, molecule, monad, natural world, nature, oscillator, parcel, part, part and parcel, particular, percentage, photocathode, physical world, plate, plenum, portion, pressure transducer, quadrant, quarter, quota, random sample, reactor, regenerator, relay, reluctance amplifier, remainder, resistor, sample, sampling, section, sector, segment, servo amplifier, share, specialty, stuff, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, substance, substratum, the four elements, thermal timing relay, transducer, transmitter, trigatron, unit of being, water
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
component An {object} adhering to a {component architecture}. (1997-11-20)
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