Component
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.