Question

What does component mean?​

Answer 1

Well it can be defined as a part of an artifact which a composite entity is made up.

Answer 2

1. A constituent part; element; ingredient.
2. A part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components.

Physics: The projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.

Physical Chemistry: One of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described.

Mathematics: A connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set.

a coordinate of a vector.