components
- 1Plural of component.
Engineers tested each of the engine's components for wear.
The recipe breaks the sauce down into its basic components.
Note
This plural belongs only to the noun. Component also works as an adjective (component parts, the component elements of a mixture), and English adjectives never take a plural ending, so it is component parts, never components parts. The plural carries both noun meanings: the separate parts of a machine or system, and, in graph theory, the connected pieces a graph falls into, as when a graph is said to have three components.
components is a form of component
component, noun: A self-contained part of a larger whole, especially a manufactured piece designed to fit into a larger device or system. Full entry
- Forms
- componentcomponents plural
- Spelling
- component → components: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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