Literary notes about component (AI summary)
The term "component" in literary usage often serves to emphasize how a whole is intrinsically composed of distinct yet interrelated parts. In some works, it designates tangible, physical elements—such as when a metal is described as an alloy component ([1]), or when describing the specific parts that form rocks ([2]) or a structured name ([3]). In other writings, it takes on an abstract or metaphorical meaning, suggesting that individual qualities like sensibility contribute as a component part of genius ([4]) or that the mind operates through separate component parts ([5]). Even in discussions of art and nature, the idea recurs, as each element or motion is depicted as an essential component of a larger, unified system ([6], [7]).
- Atomic number 50, a white metal used as an alloy component of primitive metallic cultures," I said.
— from Founding Father by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone - [ 584 ] constituting the component materials common to both classes of rocks.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - [ 171 ] 1 The component parts of this name are in Sanskrit pancha , five, and āp , water.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - Sensibility indeed, both quick and deep, is not only a characteristic feature, but may be deemed a component part, of genius.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - And it may be allowed us to consider separately the effects, that result from the separate operations of these two component parts of the mind.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Scansion is the separation of a verse of poetry into its component feet.
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster - Component heat of vapors, absorbed into the latent state during vaporization, restored to the free state during condensation.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
