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component

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UK /kəmˈpəʊnənt/US /kəmˈpəʊnənt/
noun

one of several parts of which something is made

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But then, as Jeff points out, failure is an essential component of innovation and invention.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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Um, if you've got fewer components that's fewer components to go wrong

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If you look at a cross-section of the human brain, from the top down, the human brain is actually broken into three major components that correlate perfectly with the golden circle.

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