Component - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com Technically speaking, a component is an element of a system or a part of a machine But a component can also be a factor or ingredient, such as the components of a decision or the components of a really good chocolate cake
Component - definition of component by The Free Dictionary 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; a coordinate of a vector 4 one of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described 5
component - Wiktionary, the free dictionary component (plural components) A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device A CPU is a component of a computer