Circuit Component may refer to: •Are devices that perform functions when they are connected in a circuit.

In engineering, science, and technology

Generic systems

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

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 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

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. Compon ...

, a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals *

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 not ...

s, the constituents of electronic circuits * Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems

Mathematics

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

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 * Component-based software engineering, a field within software engineering dealing with reusable software elements **

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

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

Other uses

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 *Component ingredient, in a culinary dish