Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
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"
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) straight line (a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature) "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
S: (n) asymptote (a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity) "the asymptote of the curve"
S: (n) tangent (a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point)
S: (n) secant (a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points)
S: (n) radius (a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere))
S: (n) diameter (a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface))
S: (n) chord (a straight line connecting two points on a curve)
S: (n) element (a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone)
S: (n) diagonal, bias (a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric)
S: (n) diagonal ((geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent)
S: (n) vector (a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction)