minor component

collocation in English

meaningsofminorandcomponent

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minor
adjective
uk
/ˈmaɪ.nər/us
/ˈmaɪ.nɚ/
having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the ...
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component
noun[C]
uk
/kəmˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/
a part that combines with other parts to form ...
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(Definition ofminorandcomponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This study also revealed that eukaryotic microalgae were aminorcomponentof this community.
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The quality-of-life measures derived indicate that achievement of hearing sensation is an important butminorcomponentof improvements to quality of life following implantation.
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The calc-mylonites are strongly lineated with fabrics showing aminorcomponentof dextral strike-slip motion.
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Flowers were aminorcomponentin both swards.
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Delayed mortality was negligible for all treatments (3.5-6.4%) and thus represented aminorcomponentof overall mortality.
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Feldspar is aminorcomponentand clay minerals form a still smaller fraction.
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These usage notes are a quiteminorcomponentof the dictionary - there are 446 in the third edition, in a dictionary with 2478 pages of entries.
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Pain is aminorcomponentof symptoms.
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The phenomenon of the working poor, while important, is aminorcomponentof the overall poverty problem.
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Consequently, we must not allow the coal industry to degenerate so that it forms only aminorcomponentof energy production.
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Housing support grant is now, of course, a relativelyminorcomponentin local authority housing finance.
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Aminorcomponentis scattering of light out of the line of sight of the viewer.
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Erionite was also reported to be aminorcomponentin some commercial zeolites.
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Cobalt in compound form occurs as aminorcomponentof copper and nickel minerals.
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Thus, terbium was aminorcomponentin the original terbium fraction, dominated by its immediate neighbors, gadolinium and dysprosium.
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This species is aminorcomponentof local commercial fisheries.
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While maize may have been cultivated, it was no more than aminorcomponentof the diet.
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The mesohyl is composed of the following main elements: collagen, fibronectin-like molecules, galectin, and aminorcomponent, dermatopontin.
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This species is aminorcomponentof local commercial fisheries and also a gamefish.
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It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used asminorcomponentin alloys.
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