| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A fundamental irreducible constituent of a whole: basic, essential, fundamental, rudiment (often used in plural). Idioms: part and parcel. See PART. 2. An individually considered portion of a whole: article, detail, item, particular, point. See PART. 3. One of the individual entities contributing to a whole: building block, component, constituent, factor, ingredient, integrant, part. See PART.
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