Usage
Component may refer to:
- System components, the constituents of a system
- Electronic components, the constituents of electronic circuits
- Component ingredient, the main ingredient in a dish
- Component video, a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals
- Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems
- Component-based software engineering, a field of study within software engineering dealing with software components, reusable software elements with a specification
- Component (UML), definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language
- Component (thermodynamics), a chemically independent constituent of a phase of a system
- Lumped component, a model of spatially distributed systems
- Component (VTA), a light-rail station in San Jose, California
- Software component, a reusable software element with a specification, used in component-based software engineering
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