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say it: kuhm-POH-nuhnt
component is a noun meaning "an abstract part of something". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an abstract part of something
“jealousy was a component of his character”
“two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony”
“the grammatical elements of a sentence”
“a key factor in her success”
“humor: an effective ingredient of a speech”
something determined in relation to something that includes it
“he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself”
“I read a portion of the manuscript”
“the smaller component is hard to reach”
“the animal constituent of plankton”
an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
“spare components for cars”
“a component or constituent element of a system”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for component come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.