Component

{{Wiktionary|component}} '''Component''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}

==In engineering, science, and technology== ===Generic systems=== *System 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, a model of spatially distributed systems

===Electrical=== *Component video, a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as two or more separate signals *Electronic component, a constituent of an electronic circuit *Symmetrical components, in electrical engineering, analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems

===Mathematics=== *Color model, a way of describing how colors can be represented, typically as multiple values or color components *Component (group theory), a quasi-simple subnormal sub-group *Connected component (graph theory), a maximal connected subgraph *Connected component (topology), a maximal connected subspace of a topological space *Vector component, result of the decomposition of a vector into various directions

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

===Software=== *Component (UML), definition of component in the Unified Modeling Language *Component-based software engineering, a field within software engineering dealing with reusable software elements *Software component, a reusable software element

===Chinese=== Chinese character component, a structural unit between Chinese character strokes and Chinese whole characters.

==Other uses== *Component (VTA), 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