The phrase "a distinct component of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific part or element that is clearly identifiable within a larger system or structure.
Example: "In the study of ecosystems, biodiversity is a distinct component of environmental health."
Alternatives: "a unique part of" or "an essential element of".
A microscene is a distinct component of a music scene, located in a delimited space of mutual social activity where certain clusters of scene members assemble and generate socio-cultural cohesion through collective ideologies, attitudes, preferences, practices, customs, and memories that distinguish them from the larger scene.
Despite these and other structural insights [12], [16], to what degree septins represent a distinct component of the cytoskeleton remains to be determined.
This southern edge range shift is thus causing the loss of a distinct component of the species genetic background.
Cowling & Pressey (2003) introduced the idea that identification of stakeholders should be considered as a distinct component of SCP.
Two of these papers [ 31, 32] include HRQL evaluation in the analysis, and they identified that HRQL is a distinct component of the asthma health status.
*D = Educators who deliver a distinct component of the curriculum that relates explicitly to obesity (and who do not have any broader roles within the medical school).
Features that result from the automatic feature-splitting process but make no sense were removed for example, in the turtle example, "does lay" (which, while literally true, is not a distinct component action of the original feature "does lay eggs").
"It's a clear, distinct component of what in the history of journalism we see as high points," he said, "where journalists are able to come in and say, here's a system operating in a way that is obscure to the public, and now we're able to shine the light.
WikiLeaks is "a clear distinct component of what in the history of journalism we see as high points, where journalists are able to come in and say, 'Here's a system operating in a way that is obscure to the public and now we're able to shine the light,'" said Benkler, the co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
As such, it represents a new and distinct component of delivery system design.
The LARS-e uses subscales that allow assessment of apathy traits along several domains reflecting the distinct component of apathy (behavioral, cognitive, and emotional).
