different between essential vs component

English

Alternative forms

• essentiall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin essenti?lis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?n.??l/, [??s?n.t??l]
• Hyphenation: es?sen?tial

Adjective

essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)

1. Necessary.

   Synonyms: indispensable; see also Thesaurus:requisite

   Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded
2. Very important; of high importance.

   Synonyms: crucial; see also Thesaurus:important

   Antonyms: unimportant; see also Thesaurus:insignificant
3. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
4. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones

   Antonyms: adscititious; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic

5. Really existing; existent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:existent

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent
6. (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.

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7. (medicine) Idiopathic.
8. Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Antonyms

• inessential, unessential, non-essential, nonessential

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

essential (plural essentials)

1. A necessary ingredient.
2. A fundamental ingredient.

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Related terms

• essence

Translations

Further reading

• essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• siletanes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comp?n?ns, comp?n?ntis, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?po?n?nt/

Noun

component (plural components)

1. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.

Derived terms

• componentless
• per-component

Translations

Adjective

component (not comparable)

1. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
2. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

Catalan

Verb

component

1. present participle of compondre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English component or German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m.po??n?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?po?nent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

component m (plural componenten, diminutive componentje n)

1. component

Synonyms

• onderdeel

Derived terms

• tweecomponentenlijm

Related terms

• componeren

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: komponen

Latin

Verb

component

1. third-person plural future active indicative of compon?

Romanian

Alternative forms

• (component): component?

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian componente, German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom.po?nent/

Noun

component n (plural componente)

1. component

Declension

Noun

component m (plural componen?i, feminine equivalent component?)

1. member of a team or other group

Declension

Adjective

component m or n (feminine singular component?, masculine plural componen?i, feminine and neuter plural componente)

1. component

Declension