component

In a sentence

Six example sentences with component, each labelled with its topic.

• Grip strength is the component most lifters ignore, and it fails long before the back or legs do.

  Fitness

• The reverb is a component of that sound, not decoration; strip it away and the chorus loses its whole scale.

  Music

• One failed component in the cooling loop took down a server room that had three separate backup generators.

  Technology

• Housing costs are the largest component of the price index, so a rise in rents moves the headline figure quickly.

  Economics

• Acid is the component most home cooks forget, and a squeeze of lemon fixes a stew that tastes flat.

  Cooking

• Sleep is a component of memory that no amount of extra study time replaces, as the overnight recall experiments showed.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains component. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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