component constituent element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
component constituent element factor ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
constituent grammatical constituent | (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction |
immediate constituent | a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate |
constituent | a member of a constituency, a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes, needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected |
part portion component part component constituent | something determined in relation to something that includes it, he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself, I read a portion of the manuscript, the smaller component is hard to reach, the animal constituent of plankton |
admixture alloy | the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something |
alloy metal | a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten, brass is an alloy of zinc and copper |
alloy iron alloy cast iron | cast iron containing alloying elements (usually nickel or chromium or copper or molybdenum) to increase the strength or facilitate heat treatment |
alloy steel | steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon |
copper-base alloy | any alloy whose principal component is copper |
nickel-base alloy nickel alloy | an alloy whose main constituent is nickel |
pyrophoric alloy | an alloy that emits sparks when struck or scratched with steel, used in lighter flints |
Wood's metal Wood's alloy | a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium, melts at aboutdegrees Fahrenheit |
alloy | make an alloy of |
debase alloy | lower in value by increasing the base-metal content |
constituent(a) constitutional constitutive(a) organic | constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) |