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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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To find component forces equal to the composite or resultant force, the sum of the components must equal the resultant. These cases are the more worthy of our attention, as the external causes by which the component parts were pressed together were much more numerous and powerful than in our case; and consequently less powerful ligaments within would be sufficient to bind the members to the head, and to each other. Every one also should know, that of the component parts of those things which differ from each other in species, after the first or second remove, those which follow have either nothing at all or very little common to each. |
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