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
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Found in these word lists
Found in 10 published word lists
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Business Word List (part 2)Authoritative
- Business English Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Science & Engineering English Corpus listAuthoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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.