component part

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymspartportioncomponentconstituent

   Broaderrelation

   Narrowersubstancelanguage unititembuttbasisdetailunitmemberremaindersubpart

   Part ofmeronymy

Questions about component part

What does component part mean?

component part means "something determined in relation to something that includes it".

What is another word for component part?

Close synonyms include part, portion, component, constituent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is component part a common word?

component part is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.