Component may refer to:

In engineering, science, and technology

Generic systems

System A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its open system (systems theory), environment, is described by its boundaries, str ...

components, an entity with discrete structure, such as an assembly or software module, within a system considered at a particular level of analysis * Lumped element model, a model of spatially distributed systems

Electrical

Component video Component video is an analog video signal that has been split into two or more component channels. In popular use, it refers to a type of component analog video (CAV) information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals. Compo ...

, a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals * Electronic component, a constituent of an electronic circuit * Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems

Mathematics

* Color model, a way of describing how colors can be represented, typically as multiple values or color components * Component (group theory), a quasi-simple subnormal sub-group * Connected component (graph theory), a maximal connected subgraph * Connected component (topology), a maximal connected subspace of a topological space * Vector component, result of the decomposition of a vector into various directions

Science

* Component (thermodynamics), a chemically independent constituent of a phase of a system

Software

* Component (UML), definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language * Component-based software engineering, a field within software engineering dealing with reusable software elements * Software component, a reusable software element

Chinese

Chinese character component, a structural unit between Chinese character strokes and Chinese whole characters.

Other uses

* Component (VTA), a light-rail station in San Jose, California *Part of the grammatical structure of a sentence, a concept relating to the catena *Component

ingredient In a general sense, an ingredient is a substance which forms part of a mixture. In cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a dish, and the term may also refer to a specific food item in relation to its use in different re ...

, in a culinary dish