Noun

• S: (n) component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient (an abstract part of something) "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) be-all and end-all, be all and end all (the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim) "profit is the be-all and end-all of business"
• S: (n) plot element (a component or element of the plot of a story)
• S: (n) McGuffin, MacGuffin ((film) a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot) "the McGuffin was a key element of Alfred Hitchcock's films"
• S: (n) point (a geometric element that has position but no extension) "a point is defined by its coordinates"
• S: (n) attractor, attracter ((physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system)
• S: (n) strange attractor, chaotic attractor (an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic)
• S: (n) intersection, intersection point, point of intersection (a point where lines intersect)
• S: (n) metacenter, metacentre ((shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship)
• S: (n) vertex (the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure)
• S: (n) intercept (the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) component, constituent, element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system) "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"
• S: (n) chemical element, element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
• S: (n) element (the most favorable environment for a plant or animal) "water is the element of fishes"
• S: (n) element (one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe) "the alchemists believed that there were four elements"
• S: (n) element (the situation in which you are happiest and most effective) "in your element"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) element (a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone)