COMPONENT PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does component part mean? 

• COMPONENT PART (noun)
  The noun COMPONENT PART has 1 sense:

1. something determined in relation to something that includes it

  Familiarity information: COMPONENT PART used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPONENT PART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something determined in relation to something that includes it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

component; component part; constituent; part; portion

Context example:

the animal constituent of plankton

Hypernyms ("component part" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "component part"):

substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)

language unit; linguistic unit (one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed)

item; point (a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list)

butt (the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots)

base; basis (the most important or necessary part of something)

detail; item; particular (a small part that can be considered separately from the whole)

unit (an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole)

member (anything that belongs to a set or class)

balance; remainder; residual; residue; residuum; rest (something left after other parts have been taken away)

subpart (a part of a part)

Holonyms ("component part" is a part of...):

meronymy; part to whole relation (the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole)

 Context examples 

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

(Ingredient, NCI Thesaurus)