component: Meaning and Definition of

com•po•nent

1. a constituent part; element; ingredient.
2. a part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components.
3. the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.
4. one of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described.
1. a connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set.
2. a coordinate of a vector.
6. base component; transformational component; semantic component; phonological component.
1. one of the major subdivisions of a generative grammar:base component; transformational component; semantic component; phonological component.Cf. level (def. 17).
2. a feature determined by componential analysis.

1. being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system.