Component and Primary

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Component noun - One of the parts that make up a whole.

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Primary and component are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Primary" instead an adjective "Component".

Nearby Word: componentry

Primary adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Component and primary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Component" instead an adjective "Primary".

Nearby Words: prime, prim, primarily, primal

Legionare Schultz was introduced as a trainee in Cursor's Fury and worked his way up to Centurion of the Battlecrow Cohort, functioning as Tavi's primary battle component in the First Aleran.

Source: Literature / Codex Alera
Battle Fleet is theoretically the primary combat component of the League, receiving the overwhelming majority of the funding and equipment of the League Navy, but since the Solarian League is so much bigger than every other nation in the universe they have not had an actual war in several centuries.

Source: Soldiers at the Rear
Her New 52 design replaced the yellow accents with silver ones, but the red and blue (being the primary component of the trope) are always present.

Source: Primary-Color Champion

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