Usage

• System
  System
  System is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole....
  
   components, the constituents of a system
• Electronic component
  Electronic component
  An electronic component is a basic electronic element and may be available in a discrete form having two or more electrical terminals . These are intended to be connected together, usually by soldering to a printed circuit board, in order to create an electronic circuit with a particular function...
  
  s, the constituents of electronic circuits
• Component ingredient
  Ingredient
  An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a mixture . For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Many commercial products contain a secret ingredient that is purported to make them better than competing products...
  
  , the main ingredient in a dish
• Component video
  Component video
  Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more component channels. In popular use, it refers to a type of component analog video information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals...
  
  , a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals
• Symmetrical components
  Symmetrical components
  In electrical engineering, the method of symmetrical components is used to simplify analysis of unbalanced three phase power systems under both normal and abnormal conditions.-Description:...
  
  , in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems
• Component-based software engineering
  Component-based software engineering
  Component-based software engineering is a branch of software engineering that emphasizes the separation of concerns in respect of the wide-ranging functionality available throughout a given software system...
  
  , a field of study within software engineering dealing with software components, reusable software elements with a specification
• Component (UML)
  Component (UML)
  A component in the Unified Modeling Language "represents a modular part of a system, that encapsulates its content and whose manifestation is replaceable within its environment. A component defines its behavior in terms of provided and required interfaces".A component may be replaced by another if...
  
  , definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language
• Component (thermodynamics)
  Component (thermodynamics)
  In thermodynamics, a component is a chemically distinct constituent ofa system. Calculating the number of components in a system is necessary, for example, when applying Gibbs phase rule in determination of the number of degrees of freedom of a system....
  
  , a chemically distinct constituent of a phase of a system
• Lumped component, a model of spatially distributed systems
• Component (VTA)
  Component (VTA)
  Component is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The station is located located in San Jose, California in the center median of 1st Street near Component Drive. The station's street address is 2540 N. First Street....
  
  , a light-rail station in San Jose, California
• Software component, part of the starting platform for service orientation throughout software engineering

Mathematical terms

• Component (group theory)
  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...
  
  , a quasisimple subnormal subgroup
• Connected component (graph theory)
  Connected component (graph theory)
  In graph theory, a connected component of an undirected graph is a subgraph in which any two vertices are connected to each other by paths, and which is connected to no additional vertices. For example, the graph shown in the illustration on the right has three connected components...
  
  , a maximal connected subgraph
• Connected component (topology) in topology, a maximal connected subspace of a topological space
• Vector component, a term in the decomposition of a vector into various directions such as axial, radial or tangential

See also

• Giant component
  Giant component
  In network theory, a giant component is a connected component of a given random graph that contains a constant fraction of the entire graph's vertices....
  
  
• Identity component
  Identity component
  In mathematics, the identity component of a topological group G is the connected component G0 of G that contains the identity element of the group...
  
  
• Irreducible component
  Irreducible component
  In mathematics, the concept of irreducible component is used to make formal the idea that a set such as defined by the equationis the union of the two linesandThe notion of irreducibility is stronger than connectedness.- Definition :...
  
  
• Strongly connected component
  Strongly connected component
  A directed graph is called strongly connected if there is a path from each vertex in the graph to every other vertex. In particular, this means paths in each direction; a path from a to b and also a path from b to a....
  
  
• Tangential and normal components
  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 normal component of the vector...