Component

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A component is any smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity.

Usage

Component may refer to:

Electronic components, the constituents of electronic circuits
Component ingredient, the main ingredient in a dish
Component video, a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals
Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems
Component-based software engineering, a field of study within software engineering dealing with software components, reusable software elements with a specification
Component (UML), definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language
Component (thermodynamics), a chemically distinct constituent of a phase of a system
Lumped component, a model of spatially distributed systems
Component (VTA), a light-rail station in San Jose, California

Component (group theory), a quasisimple subnormal subgroup
Connected component (graph theory), a maximal connected subgraph
Connected component in topology, a maximal connected subspace of a topological space
Vector component, a term in the decomposition of a vector into various directions such as axial, radial or tangential
The classical treatment of tensors describes a tensor as a multidimensional array of components.
A component in principal components analysis