component

noun

1. a constituent part; element; ingredient.
2. a part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components.
3. Physics. the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.
4. Physical Chemistry. one of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described.
5. Mathematics.
   1. a connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set.
   2. a coordinate of a vector.
6. Linguistics.
   1. one of the major subdivisions of a generative grammar: base component; transformational component; semantic component; phonological component.Compare level(def 16).
   2. a feature determined by componential analysis.

adjective

7. being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system.

noun

1. a constituent part or aspect of something more complexa component of a car
2. Also called: element 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. maths
   1. one of a set of two or more vectors whose resultant is a given vector
   2. the projection of this given vector onto a specified line
4. one of the minimum number of chemically distinct constituents necessary to describe fully the composition of each phase in a systemSee phase rule

adjective

5. forming or functioning as a part or aspect; constituent