subcomponents

noun

variants or sub-components
plural of subcomponent
as in components

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcomponents
  1. components
  2. segments
  3. sections
  4. elements
  5. portions
  6. fragments
  7. sectors
  8. particles
Noun
  • Given the current concerns about AI token budgeting, energy demand, and general lack of computing components, Microsoft is clearly looking to bring the compute needed to run AI workloads to your desk and out of the data center.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • However, this series captures the components that made the original so timeless, while allowing the titular character to transcend her small town and connect with other young women with special abilities across the globe.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of components
Noun
  • At this point in the shoot, the host segments that serve as interstitials for the movie mocking that made the original a success have all been filmed.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Still, few major vehicle segments are showing that kind of growth this year.
    — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of segments
Noun
  • With both Better Homes & Gardens and Woman & Home publishing explainers, the term is primed to migrate into big-box home sections, subscription boxes and gift guides over the next holiday cycle.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The team broke down Mario’s possible path through a level into individual sections, each corresponding to a calculation instruction of the counting machine.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of sections
Noun
  • In most cases, bed and board have to be paid for, but there are a series of daily spending caps on different elements, such as food and hotel costs.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Part of her vision is that juxtaposition of elements, and leaning into making her audience feel that sense of discomfort.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of elements
Noun
  • This year, lingering warmth could disrupt or shorten the fall foliage window for large portions of the country.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Tishman’s people have spent the past few years sprucing up Rockefeller Center — the oldest portions of which are comparable in age to the Chrysler Building, though they’ve been better maintained — and trying to make its retail spaces more of a draw.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of portions
Noun
  • The star is 2,160,000 ppb of low-molecular-weight collagen—in other words, smaller collagen fragments that help draw moisture to skin for a plumper, firmer look.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 7 Oct. 2026
  • This test, as well as others like it, can detect tiny fragments of free-floating DNA in the blood.
    — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of fragments
Noun
  • These are sectors where successes are built over decades rather than years.
    — Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Other sectors like industrial, regional malls, and even office are seeing positive returns, despite higher interest rates.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of sectors
Noun
  • Neutrinos bump into other particles only rarely, so scientists build large detectors to improve their odds of catching collisions.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Relativistic means travelling at speeds near that of light, with the blazar's central supermassive black hole as the engine that accelerated these particles.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of particles
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