Component may refer to:

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

See also Composition (disambiguation) Decomposition (disambiguation) Giant component Identity component Irreducible component Spare part Strongly connected component Tangential and normal components :Category:Components