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componentOne 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. 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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