Synonyms of the word

element

• n. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution…
• n. A small part of the whole.
• n. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
• n. A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
• n. (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
• n. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
• n. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating…
• n. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching…

component

• n. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part…
• adj. Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
• adj. Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.

constituent

• adj. Being a part, or component of a whole.
• adj. Authorized to make a constitution.
• n. A part, or component of a whole.
• n. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
• n. A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
• n. (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
• n. (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

environment

• n. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
• n. The natural world or ecosystem.
• n. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
• n. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
• n. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
• n. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…
• n. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with…

environs

• n. The surroundings; the environment.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of environ.

factor

• n. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
• n. (now rare) An agent or representative.
• n. (law).
• n. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
• n. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
• n. (root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing…
• n. (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
• n. (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
• v. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide…
• v. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
• v. (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

ingredient

• n. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

situation

• n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
• n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
• n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
• n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
• n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
• n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

surround

• v. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• n. (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

surroundings

• n. plural of surrounding.
• n. the area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity;…
• n. (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.