Circuit
Component may refer to:
•Are devices that perform functions when they are connected in a circuit.
In engineering, science, and technology
Generic systems
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System components, an entity with discrete structure, such as an assembly or software module, within a system considered at a particular level of analysis
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Lumped element model, a model of spatially distributed systems
Electrical
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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
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Electronic component
An electronic component is any basic discrete device or physical entity in an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields. Electronic components are mostly industrial products, available in a singular form and are n ...
s, the constituents of electronic circuits
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Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems
Mathematics
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Color model
A color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three or four values or color components. When this model is associated with a precise description of how the compo ...
, a way of describing how colors can be represented, typically as multiple values or color components
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Component (group theory), a quasi-simple subnormal sub-group
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Connected component (graph theory), a maximal connected subgraph
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Connected component (topology), a maximal connected subspace of a topological space
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Vector component
In mathematics, physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector or simply a vector (sometimes called a geometric vector or spatial vector) is a geometric object that has magnitude (or length) and direction. Vectors can be added to other vectors ...
, result of the decomposition of a vector into various directions
Software
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Component (UML), definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language
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Component-based software engineering
Component-based software engineering (CBSE), also called component-based development (CBD), is a branch of software engineering that emphasizes the separation of concerns with respect to the wide-ranging functionality available throughout a giv ...
, a field within software engineering dealing with reusable software elements
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Software component
Component-based software engineering (CBSE), also called component-based development (CBD), is a branch of software engineering that emphasizes the separation of concerns with respect to the wide-ranging functionality available throughout a give ...
, a reusable software element with a specification, used in component-based software engineering
Other sciences
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Component (thermodynamics), a chemically independent constituent of a phase of a system
Other uses
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Component (VTA), a light-rail station in San Jose, California
*Part of the grammatical structure of a sentence, a concept relating to the
catena
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ingredient
An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a mixture (in a general sense). For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Many commercial products contain secret ingredients that are pur ...
, in a culinary dish
See also
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Composition (disambiguation)
Composition or Compositions may refer to:
Arts and literature
* Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography
* Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...
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Decomposition (disambiguation)
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Giant component
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Identity component
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Irreducible component
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Spare part
A spare part, spare, service part, repair part, or replacement part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or refurbishment of defective equipment/units. Spare parts are an important feature of logist ...
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Strongly connected component
In the mathematical theory of directed graphs, a graph is said to be strongly connected if every vertex is reachable from every other vertex. The strongly connected components of an arbitrary directed graph form a partition into subgraphs that ...
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Tangential and normal components
In mathematics, given a vector at a point on a curve, that vector can be decomposed uniquely as a sum of two vectors, one tangent to the curve, called the tangential component of the vector, and another one perpendicular to the curve, called the ...
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