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component

One element of a larger system. A hardware component can be a device as small as a transistor or as large as a disk drive as long as it is part of a larger system. Software components are routines or modules within a larger system. See component software and component video.

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component

1. 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

2. Maths

a. one of a set of two or more vectors whose resultant is a given vector

b. the projection of this given vector onto a specified line

3. Chemistry one of the minimum number of chemically distinct constituents necessary to describe fully the composition of each phase in a system

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component [kəm′pō·nənt]

(chemistry)

A part of a mixture.

The smallest number of chemical substances which are able to form all the constituents of a system in whatever proportion they may be present.

(electricity)

Any electric device, such as a coil, resistor, capacitor, generator, line, or electron tube, having distinct electrical characteristics and having terminals at which it may be connected to other components to form a circuit. Also known as circuit element; element.

(mathematics)

In a graph system, a connected subgraph which is not a subgraph of any other connected subgraph.

For a setS, a connected subset ofSthat is not a subset of any other connected subset ofS.

The projection of a vector in a given direction of a coordinate system.

(science and technology)

A constituent part of a system; examples are a vector term which when added to others gives a vector sum, an ingredient of a chemical system, or the mineral portion of a rock.

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(programming)

component - An object adhering to a component architecture.