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Meaning of ingredient

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  ingredient
      n 1: a component of a mixture or compound
      2: 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" [syn: {component},
         {constituent}, {element}, {factor}, {ingredient}]
      3: food that is a component of a mixture in cooking; "the recipe
         lists all the fixings for a salad" [syn: {ingredient},
         {fixings}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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