Component

Component

A part or element of an architectural, electrical, mechanical, or structural system.

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Industry/Domain: Construction
Category: Seismic safety
Company: FEMA
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components

Automotive; Automobile

The various parts that make up the whole system or device.

component

Automotive; Automobile

(1) One of the parts that make up the whole system or device, as in The brake pad is a component of the brake system. (2) A raw material, ingredient, part or subassembly that goes ...

M component

Weather; Meteorology

In a lightning discharge, an increase in channel luminosity accompanied by a rapid electric field variation, itself called an M electric field change. The M components occur when ...

M component

Weather; Meteorology

In a lightning discharge, an increase in channel luminosity accompanied by a rapid electric field variation, itself called an M electric field change. The M components occur when ...

component

Business services; Project management

A constituent part, an element

component

Education; SAT vocabulary

A constituent element or part.

cistern

Construction; Architecture; Building/real property; Carpentry; Demolition/excavation

water recipient like a well or a tank

y-braced frame

Construction; Seismic safety

An eccentric braced frame (EBF) in which the stem of the Y is the link of the EBF system.

x-braced frame

Construction; Seismic safety

A concentric braced frame (CBF) in which a pair of diagonal braces crosses near the midlength of the braces.

wythe

Construction; Seismic safety

A continuous vertical section of a wall, one masonry unit in thickness.

wind-restraint system

Construction; Seismic safety

The collection of structural elements that provides restraint of the seismic-isolated structure for wind loads. The wind-restraint system may be either an integral part of ...

w waferboard

Construction; Seismic safety

A nonveneered structural panel manufactured from two- to three-inch flakes or wafers bonded together with a phenolic resin and pressed into sheet panels.