Component

Component - Technically, a dynamically bindable package of functionality that is managed as a unit and accessed through documented interfaces that can be discovered at runtime. Pragmatically, components tend to fall into two major groups: technical components, which perform a technology-specific task that is application-independent (e.g., a graphical user interface control), and business components, which encapsulate a piece of business functionality.

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Source: X4DB, 15 May 2010 08:38:14, http://www.x4db.com/glossary.html

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component - In the context of distributed computing, a component is a software program unit that performs one or more functions and that communicates and interoperates with other components through common interfaces.

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Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 04 June 2011 08:22:09, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary

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component - [non-ESRI software] In COM, a binary unit of code that can be used to create COM objects.

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Source: esri, 27 February 2012 09:30:02, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation