Component vs. Category — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Component and Category
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Definitions
Component
A part or element of a larger whole, especially a part of a machine or vehicle
Hydrogen is a component of all organic compounds
An assembly plant for imported components
Category
A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics
The various categories of research
Component
Constituting part of a larger whole; constituent
The component elements of the armed forces
Category
Each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
Component
A constituent element, as of a system.
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Category
A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
Component
A part of a mechanical or electrical complex.
Category
Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in all things.
Component
(Mathematics) One of a set of two or more vectors having a sum equal to a given vector.
Category
Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.
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Component
Being or functioning as a constituent or an ingredient.
Category
A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.
Component
A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
A CPU is a component of a computer.
Category
A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of phrase.
Component
Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
Category
A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.
Component
Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.
Category
(Mathematics) A class of objects, together with a class of morphisms between those objects, and an associative composition rule for those morphisms. Categories are used to study a wide variety of mathematical constructions in a similar way.
Component
Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
The component parts of natural bodies.
Category
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
Component
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Category
(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
Component
An abstract part of something;
Jealousy was a component of his character
Two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony
The grammatical elements of a sentence
A key factor in her success
Humor: an effective ingredient of a speech
Category
One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
The categories or predicaments - the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language - were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed.
Component
Something determined in relation to something that includes it;
He wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself
I read a portion of the manuscript
The smaller component is hard to reach
Category
Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category.
Component
An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system;
Spare components for cars
A component or constituent element of a system
Category
A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents
Category
A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
