significant component
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandcomponent
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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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 ofsignificantandcomponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If children processed words at the component character level representation, asignificantcomponentcharacter frequency effect would be expected.
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Consequently, characters at the component character level were activated, resulting insignificantcomponentcharacter frequency effect.
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Competition for binding sites within the gut is, thus, a possiblesignificantcomponentin colonization-inhibition.
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It focused on hospital-based costs that were thought to represent the mostsignificantcomponentin the provision of the service.
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They found that the shock-oscillation spectrum has asignificantcomponentat a frequency which corresponds to the incoming boundary-layer bursting frequency.
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Appreciation of cultural and ethnic background differences is onesignificantcomponent.
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The observed fabric asymmetry, with respect to foliation and stretching lineation, indicate asignificantcomponentof non-coaxial, top-to-the-west-southwest shear.
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In such models, consideration of the speaker's point of view is asignificantcomponentof accounts of some important language phenomena.
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A set of lexicographically comparable lists of the same length is partitioned into blocks in which elements have the same mostsignificantcomponent.
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Overlooking impoverished sites neglects asignificantcomponentof racial regimes.
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Ductile deformation fabrics result from non-coaxial simple shear with asignificantcomponentof flattening.
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Nixon would discover that this group was asignificantcomponentof the "silent majority" that he frequently espoused.
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Nursing costs have been shown in several studies to be asignificantcomponentof overall neonatal costs, accounting for between 40% and 70% of the total (5;14;15;20).
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Presently, we can only attempt to capture the short-term benefits of improved health, but the longer-term effects could well be asignificantcomponentof the total benefits.
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The ventral pathway associated with object identification and shape recognition is minimally activated, implying that shape is not asignificantcomponentof the basic flaking task.
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Indeed, lexical disambiguation in general often includes asignificantcomponentof part of speech disambiguation, and this as true of word expert approaches as it is of others.
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Indeed, there is a strong case for arguing that intertextual reference is a more central andsignificantcomponentof scientific writing than it is of literary writing.
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Had acquisitive 'rustling' been asignificantcomponentof the thefts, the reverse ought to have been true.
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