Component
[kəm'pəʊnənt] or [kəm'ponənt]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) 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'.
Checked by Elmer--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
(n.) A constituent part; an ingredient.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Composing, constituting, constituent.
n. Constituent, element, ingredient, component part.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ingredient, element, constituent, factor, content, rudiment
ANT:Aggregate, sum, entirety, adventitious, compound, nonconstituent, foreign,heterogeneous
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Definition
adj. making up: forming one of the elements of a compound.—n. one of the elements of a compound.—n. Compō′nency.—adj. Component′al.
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Examples
- But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The acrid smell had carried across the table and he had picked out the one familiar component. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The dispersion of a ray of white light separates it into its component color rays. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If at any time it exceeds the effectual demand, some of the component parts of its price must be paid below their natural rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The acid component of the grease partially neutralizes the base, and a new substance is formed, namely, soap. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the liquefaction of oxygen and nitrogen, the principal component gases of air, the liquefaction of air itself followed immediately as a matter of course. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The component part of ideas and impressions are precisely alike. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Flame and shadow seem the component parts of that lad's soul--no daylight in it, and no sunshine, and no pure, cool moonbeam ever shone there. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Through their leaves plants absorb it from the atmosphere, and by a wonderful process break it up into its component parts, oxygen and carbon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Secondly, The component parts of this possibility and probability are of the same nature, and differ in number only, but not in kind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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