basic component
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandcomponent
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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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 ofbasicandcomponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At one level of resolution we could define each of the steps 1 and 2 as abasiccomponentof the toolbox.
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The threebasiccomponentorientations are not considered as independent of one another and their mutual orthogonality is taken into account in the equations.
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Policies of privatisation of social services provision have become abasiccomponentof the general restructuring of welfare states.
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But since it is "unknown," it can scarcely be thebasiccomponentof his theory of knowledge that some have seen in it.
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In this reconstruction households are seen as the uniform and unproblematicbasiccomponentof society.
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The subjecthood of one of the arguments participating in the event is abasiccomponentof the lexical structure for expressing the event.
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Additionally, thebasiccomponentof the manipulated variable is generated in the model loop.
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Abasiccomponentof a substitution method calculation is partitioning the boundary vertices of the substitution region.
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This article has demonstrated that the widespread use of child labour in agriculture was abasiccomponentof family subsistence of the family units.
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Identity is abasiccomponentof human social relations.
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L1 reading research has placed considerable importance on investigating the role ofbasiccomponentprocessing in reading.
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For description and correlation of the stratigraphy in basin analysis, lithology is thebasiccomponent to be studied, with fauna and flora providing additional constraints (if present in the sediments).
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Within and among all of the cultivars, there was always more variability in size of the acidic polypeptide than in thebasiccomponentof the subunit.
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It could be argued that what is responsible for the contribution ofbasiccomponentprocessing might be a more general speed factor rather than efficient phonological and orthographic processing skills.
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For us farmers, commodity futures trading is abasiccomponentof the buying and selling of harvested crops.
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Is he aware that chlorine is abasiccomponentof bleach, which every housewife needs to clean the loo and to bleach shirts and sheets?
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Individual financial security is abasiccomponentof culture and peace.
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It depends on several key elements, but effective allocation by an economic pricing mechanism must be thebasiccomponent.
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Thebasiccomponentof the new scheme will be the flat-rate pension in force when the scheme starts.
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It talks about the "standardbasiccomponent"and the"married woman's standardbasiccomponent" and so forth.
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