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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

ses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

ourts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

The principal component part of a thing.

equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.

led the resultant) which shall be equal in effect to two or more given forces (called the components) when acting in given directions. Herbert. -- Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition…

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden.

A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts ofchlorophyll.

ompound screw by which a motion is produced equal to the difference of the motions of the component screws. -- Differential thermometer, a thermometer usually with a U-shaped tube terminating in two air bulbs, and containing a colored liquid, used for indicating the difference between the temperatures to which the two…

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

g; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

s the lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.

The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility.

ar diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowe…