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In mathematics, one of the vectors produced when a single vector is resolved into two or more parts. The vector sum of the components gives the original vector.

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In physics, one of two or more vectors, normally at right angles to each other, that add together to produce the same effect as a single resultant vector. Any vector quantity, such as force, velocity, or electric field, can be resolved into components chosen for ease of calculation. For example, the weight of a body resting on a slope can be resolved into two force components (see resolution of forces); one normal to the slope and the other parallel to the slope.



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To find component forces equal to the composite or resultant force, the sum of the components must equal the resultant.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
These cases are the more worthy of our attention, as the external causes by which the component parts were pressed together were much more numerous and powerful than in our case; and consequently less powerful ligaments within would be sufficient to bind the members to the head, and to each other.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
Every one also should know, that of the component parts of those things which differ from each other in species, after the first or second remove, those which follow have either nothing at all or very little common to each.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
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