central component

collocation in English

meaningsofcentralandcomponent

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central
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.trəl/
us
/ˈsen.trəl/
in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part ...
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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 ofcentralandcomponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Moreover, it views the experiencing self or ego as acentralcomponentof that autobiographical context.
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This establishes the uniqueness of thecentralcomponent.
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This style of planning, it was believed, was acentralcomponentin rational action.
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Acentralcomponentin each of these models is cross-orientation suppression.
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The force was acentralcomponentin the colonial state's efforts to assert control over the urban arena.
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What would happen, however, if social support interventions became acentralcomponentof public policies intended to assist troubled children and families?
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Thecentralcomponentof this hypothesis is simply a system that integrates perception and motor control.
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I would therefore argue that the notion of consensus should not be acentralcomponentof a moral economy perspective.
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The 'consultation' is seen as acentralcomponentin most clinical settings, but particularly in general practice.
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Acentralcomponentof these bands was their initial preference for analogue and digital synthesizers over the guitar as the core definers of their sound.
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Evaluation is seen as acentralcomponentof a resultant new regime of scrutiny, which defrays political responsibility and replaces it with the 'virtuous circle of evaluation, evidence, performance'.
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Jackendoff wants to escape what he calls the "syntactocentrism" of all the standard generative models, where syntax has always been taken to be thecentralcomponentof language.
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Chapter five shows that by the early 1920s football was acentralcomponentof the urban experience, whether in the making of individual, neigbourhood or wider communal identities (p. 228).
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Children's rights arguments designed to legitimate policy initiatives but not acentralcomponentof policy.
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Ecological and social parameters that incorporate careful attention to rights and values (both human and nonhuman) should represent acentralcomponentof any environmental decision-making framework.
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Although the section on word identification occupies only a modest proportion of the target article, there is no denying that this is acentralcomponentof the model.
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The biggest difference from previous work is that unification, always acentralcomponent, is extended to return not just a unifying substitution, but also a set of constraints.
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Punishment for wrongdoing is, and always will be, acentralcomponentof any law-abiding society.
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That will be acentralcomponentof public expenditure policy in the years ahead.
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Itscentralcomponentis price reductions, amounting to almost 40%, and quota cuts.
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