<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A constituent part; element; ingredient.</li><li>A part of a mechanical or electrical system.</li><li>Physics. The projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.</li><li>Physical Chemistry. One of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described.</li><li>Mathematics. A connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set.</li><li>A coordinate of a vector.</li><li>Linguistics. One of the major subdivisions of a generative grammar.</li><li>Base component; transformational component; semantic component; phonological component.</li><li>A feature determined by componential analysis.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent.</li></ul>