Component may refer to:
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
The lumped-element model (also called lumped-parameter model, or lumped-component model) simplifies the description of the behaviour of spatially distributed physical systems, such as electrical circuits, into a topology consisting of discrete e ...
, 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 components, 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 compon ...
, a way of describing how colors can be represented, typically as multiple values or color components
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Component (group theory)
In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a component of a finite group is a quasisimple subnormal subgroup. Any two distinct components commute. The product of all the components is the layer of the group.
For finite abelian (or nilpoten ...
, a quasi-simple subnormal sub-group
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Connected component (graph theory)
In graph theory, a component of an undirected graph is a connected subgraph that is not part of any larger connected subgraph. The components of any graph partition its vertices into disjoint sets, and are the induced subgraphs of those sets. A ...
, a maximal connected subgraph
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Connected component (topology)
In topology and related branches of mathematics, a connected space is a topological space that cannot be represented as the union of two or more disjoint non-empty open subsets. Connectedness is one of the principal topological properties ...
, 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 a ...
, result of the decomposition of a vector into various directions
Software
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Component (UML)
A component in the Unified Modeling Language represents a modular part of a system that encapsulates the state and behavior of a number of classifiers. Its behavior is defined in terms of ''provided'' and ''required'' interfaces,OMG (2008). OMG ...
, definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language
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Component-based software engineering, 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)
Component station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The station is located in San Jose, California in the center median of 1st Street near Component Drive. The station's street address is 2540 N. ...
, 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, in a culinary dish
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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 v ...
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Decomposition (disambiguation)
Biology and ecology
Decomposition is the process through which organic matter is broken down into simpler molecules.
Decomposition, decompose may also refer to:
Chemistry
* Chemical decomposition or analysis, in chemistry, is the fragmentation ...
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Giant component
In network theory, a giant component is a connected component of a given random graph that contains a finite fraction of the entire graph's vertices.
Giant component in Erdős–Rényi model
Giant components are a prominent feature of the ErdÅ ...
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Identity component
In mathematics, specifically group theory, the identity component of a group ''G'' refers to several closely related notions of the largest connected subgroup of ''G'' containing the identity element.
In point set topology, the identity compo ...
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Irreducible component
In algebraic geometry, an irreducible algebraic set or irreducible variety is an algebraic set that cannot be written as the union of two proper algebraic subsets. An irreducible component is an algebraic subset that is irreducible and maximal ( ...
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Spare part
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Strongly connected component
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Tangential and normal components
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