Component

Component may refer to:

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 distinct 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, part of the starting platform for service orientation throughout software engineering

Mathematical terms

• Component (group theory), a quasisimple subnormal subgroup
• Connected component (graph theory), 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
• Identity component
• Irreducible component
• Strongly connected component
• Tangential and normal components
• Category:Components