Component

Noun

 * 1) A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity.  Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.

Adjective

 * 1) Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
 * 2) Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

Adjectives for Component
essential; necessary.

Adverbs for Component
fundamentally; essentially; necessarily; indispensably; unavoidably; constitutionally; organically; vitally.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From componens:, present participle of compono:.

Noun

 * Arabic: جزء, عامل, عنصر
 * Armenian:, բաղադրամաս
 * Bulgarian: съставна част, компонент
 * Chinese: 元件 (yuánjiàn)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, komponanto
 * Finnish: komponentti, rakenneosa, osatekijä
 * French:
 * Georgian: კომპონენტი
 * German:
 * Hebrew: מרכיב (markiv) ; רכיב (rekhiv)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 部分 (ぶぶん, bubun)
 * Korean: 부분 (bubun)
 * Latin:
 * Korean: 부분 (bubun)
 * Latin:


 * Manx: co-olt
 * Norwegian: komponent
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: componentă
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: komponent
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאָמפּאָנענט (komponent)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאָמפּאָנענט (komponent)
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאָמפּאָנענט (komponent)
 * Yiddish: קאָמפּאָנענט (komponent)

Etymology
componente:, Latin componens

Noun
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 * 1) component

Synonyms

 * element component

Adjective

 * 1) component