component

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: com=po=nent

CIDE DICTIONARY

component, a. [L. componens, p. pr. of componere. See Compound, v. t.].

 Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.  [1913 Webster]
"The component parts of natural bodies."  [1913 Webster]

component, n. 

 A constituent part; an ingredient.  [1913 Webster]

Component of force (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

component, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a part of a larger whole, esp. part of a motor vehicle.
2 Math. one of two or more vectors equivalent to a given vector.
--adj. being part of a larger whole (assembled the component parts).

Derivative

componential adj.

Etymology

L componere component- (as COM-, ponere put)

THESAURUS

component

actuator, adjunct, air, amplifier, anode, appurtenance, aspect, atom, atomic particles, base, brute matter, building block, capacitator, cathode, chemical element, circumstance, clock, constituent, contents, contingent, control relay, control resistor, converter, cross section, detachment, detail, division, dole, earth, effector, electrode, element, elementary, elementary particle, elementary unit, factor, feature, feedback amplifier, filament, fire, fixings, formative, fraction, fundamental particle, generator, grid, hyle, hypostasis, inductor, ingredient, installment, integral, integrant, item, magnetic relay, makings, material, material world, materiality, matter, meter relay, modulator, molecule, monad, natural world, nature, oscillator, parcel, part, part and parcel, particular, percentage, photocathode, physical world, plate, plenum, portion, pressure transducer, quadrant, quarter, quota, random sample, reactor, regenerator, relay, reluctance amplifier, remainder, resistor, sample, sampling, section, sector, segment, servo amplifier, share, specialty, stuff, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, substance, substratum, the four elements, thermal timing relay, transducer, transmitter, trigatron, unit of being, water

ROGET THESAURUS

component

Component

N component, component part, integral part, integrant part, element, constituent, ingredient, leaven, part and parcel, contents, appurtenance, feature, member, personnel, forming, inclusive.