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Component

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Narrower term 27

Accessory 76% connected

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contrib…

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Addition 76% connected

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

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Appurtenance 76% connected

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and…

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Balance 76% connected

An apparatus for weighing.

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Base 76% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Basis 76% connected

The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

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Butt 76% connected

Alt. of But

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Crystal 76% connected

The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces…

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Detail 76% connected

A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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Hardware 76% connected

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

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Improver 76% connected

One who, or that which, improves.

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Ingredient 76% connected

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

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Item 76% connected

Also; as an additional article.

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Making 76% connected

of Make

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Member 76% connected

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

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Module 76% connected

A model or measure.

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Particular 76% connected

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Remainder 76% connected

Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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Residual 76% connected

Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.

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Residue 76% connected

That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

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Residuum 76% connected

That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Spare 76% connected

To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Supplement 76% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Broader term 5

Division 76% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Relation 76% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Compose 74% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

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Compose 74% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

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Partial 74% connected

Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

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Partial 74% connected

Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

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Synonym 6

Constituent 92% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Element 92% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Factor 92% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for ot…

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Ingredient 92% connected

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

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Part 92% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Portion 92% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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