title: Component
text: # 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 components, the constituents of electronic circuits
  * 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
  
  ### 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 with a specification, used in component-based software engineering
  
  ### Other sciences
  
  * Component (thermodynamics), a chemically independent constituent of a phase of a system
  
  ## 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
  