component

Component (from Latin componens , the `` composing '') generally refers to the components of larger units. The name also stands for:

• Component (software) , part of software in the development of software architecture
• Component (UML) , a model element in a modeling language for software and other systems
• a connected subgraph in graph theory, see connection (graph theory)
• in mathematics a coordinate of a vector , a coefficient of a tensor , an entry in a matrix (mathematics)
• Component (technology) , an individual part of a technical complex
• the individual parts of an assembly or such as an individual component of a plant or system
• in chemistry and thermodynamics a component (e.g. a type of atom or ion) of a mixture , see also species (chemistry)
• Component (astronomy) in astronomy a star that is part of a double or multiple star system
• in linguistics a semantic characteristic (sem), a meaning part of a word or a morpheme, see component analysis

See also:

• Component video , a term from video technology

Wiktionary: component  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.