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Meaning of component in English

component
noun [ C ]
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/kəmˈpəʊ.nənt/ us
/kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/
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a part that combines with other parts to form something bigger:
television/aircraft/computer components
The factory supplies electrical components for cars.
The course has four main components: business law, finance, computing and management skills.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are an essential component of a healthy diet.
The control of inflation is a key component of the government's economic policy.
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(Definition of component from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

component | American Dictionary

component
noun [ C ]
us
/kəmˈpoʊ·nənt/
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one of the parts of a system, process, or machine:
Fair pay for child-care providers is a vital component of welfare reform.
physics
A component of a vector is one of the things that the vector represents, such as force or speed.
(Definition of component from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

component | Business English

component
noun [ C ]
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a part that combines with other parts to make a machine or piece of equipment:
automobile/computer, etc. component The company is a leading manufacturer of automobile components.
a particular feature or part of something:
essential/key/major, etc. component The major components of the transport system include the road network, railway system, air transport services, and ports and shipping services.
(Definition of component from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of component

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We can use this property to decompose the refinement of a program into the refinement of (some or all of) its components.
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The other three grasses are minor components of the savanna.
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The fraction of the larger number contains the smaller components.
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Modeled cor tical units did not include the nonlinear component.
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An alternating pattern may result, for example, from a cyclic component with a period of about 2 days; persisting patterns may arise in several ways.
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Organic components were then eluted quantitatively with an organic solvent such as dichloromethane.
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Five organic components and the presence of amorphous organic matter were taken into account in the palynofacies analysis.
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She takes the broadest of views, including any discrete carbonate structure with topographic relief formed by in situ or bound organic components.
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The system is represented by lumped parameters for components.
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The net free energy change then represents the difference between several large-value terms, and no single component can be said to dominate.
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In the tasks using a symbolic component, the second item was replaced with a placeholder item.
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The organisational development of individual parties is a third necessary component of any process of systemic institutionalisation.
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In particular, we identified the fact that the paths are the only tractable component of the design space.
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Significance values were assigned to variance components based on 1000 random permutations of individuals, assuming no genetic structure.
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His method uses return times of random walks to estimate the size of connected components.
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Collocations with component

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active component
Their results suggest that a heparin-like glycosaminoglycan from the oviduct may be an active component for capacitation in the cattle oviduct.
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additional component
An additional component required by incremental stack-copying is the need for binding installation.
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affective component
For example, in cases where there was a significant affective component, care was taken to ensure that diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder were clearly met.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
組成部分, 成分, 零件…
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组成部分, 成分, 零部件…
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peça, componente [masculine]…
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parça, unsur, eleman…
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composant [masculine], élément [masculine], pièce…
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構成要素（こうせい ようそ）…
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onderdeel…
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மற்ற பாகங்களுடன் இணைந்து பெரிய ஒன்றை உருவாக்கும் ஒரு பகுதி…
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भाग, एक भाग जो अन्य भागों के संग मिलकर कुछ और बड़ा बनाता है…
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ભાગ, ઘટક…
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del, komponent…
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komponent [masculine], del [masculine], (bestand)del…
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جزو, ضروری حصہ, جزو ترکیبی…
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компонент, складова частина…
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деталь…
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భాగం, ఇతర భాగాలతో కలిపి పెద్దదాన్ని ఏర్పరుస్తుంది…
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উপাদান, অংশ…
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bộ phận cấu thành…
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składnik, część, element…
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