component
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
component /kəmˈpəʊnənt/
▶noun
- 1 a part or element of a larger whole, especially a part of a machine or vehicle.
- 2 Physics each of two or more forces, velocities, or other vectors acting in different directions which are together equivalent to a given vector.
– derivatives
componentize (or componentise) verb.
componentize (or componentise) verb.
'component' also found in these Oxford entries:
actinic
- aerogel
- apheresis
- ascomycete
- ash
- assemble
- assembler
- assembly
- atomic
- austenite
- azimuth
- ballast
- bench test
- biopharmaceutical
- burnout
- capacitance
- cartilage
- clathrate
- coacervate
- collagen
- combination
- compact
- compose
- constant
- constituent
- cristobalite
- crocodile clip
- cytosol
- deck
- decompose
- demassify
- derate
- deuteranopia
- disaggregate
- displacement
- dissociate
- distil
- fit
- fitted
- friction welding
- geostrophic
- glucose
- goblet cell
- harmonic
- head
- heavy
- humus
- hydrogel
- inductor
