How to Use subcomponent in a Sentence

subcomponent

noun
  • It is designed to replicate the extreme heat flux present in fusion devices, targeting a steady-state heat load of more than 10 megawatts per square meter on subcomponent surfaces.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • As Beijing tightens trade restrictions on exporting drones, many drone manufacturers are now working quickly to try to find ways to build drone subcomponents onshore themselves.
    Natan Linder, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • One problem the team already encountered has to do with the machine’s ability to create an electric field to manipulate the positively and negatively charged subcomponents of antihydrogen to combine (with the help of a laser) within the detector.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The team hopes to iron out any final wrinkles during the testing phase and conduct the initial experiments—just observing the up or down movement of antihydrogen—before CERN’s steady supply of antiprotons and positrons (subcomponents that make up antimatter) is cut off.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Its top chips, made by TSMC in Taiwan, require extreme ultraviolet lithography machines from the Netherlands’ ASML, which relies on German and Japanese subcomponents.
    Jared Cohen, Time, 18 Feb. 2026

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