The phrase "as a distinct component" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing elements that are separate or unique within a larger context or system.
Example: "In the study of ecosystems, water serves as a distinct component that supports various forms of life."
Alternatives: "as a separate element" or "as an individual part".
Cowling & Pressey (2003) introduced the idea that identification of stakeholders should be considered as a distinct component of SCP.
For the prospective component of the system, we use the term FlowGuide, and it was developed later as a distinct component within the HealthFlow project.
Vrijens and colleagues support the definitions proposed by Riegel and Dickson and describe self-management specifically as it related to medication-taking by defining the medication-taking aspect of self-care behavior as a distinct component of self-management [ 10].
In distinction to our findings of fronto-parietal-visual networks, these investigations often feature the ventral visual cortex as a distinct component not containing parietal or posterior frontal regions.
In the PCA of the activity data reported here, rearing frequency loaded together with ambulatory counts and was specific to the apparatus the animal was being tested in (open field, dark box, or the light dark choice condition), whereas rearing duration emerged as a distinct component that remained stable across all testing conditions.
Complicating matters, uncertainty about the current degree of differentiation between the White River and other areas makes it harder to assess definitively the priority that should be placed on maintaining fish from that tributary as a distinct component of the population.
Each peripheral nerve function measure was entered as an individual variable, as each represented a distinct component of nerve function with modest correlation between measures (r = 0.03 0.22, adjusted for age, sex, and race).
This sample was classified as community-living or institutionalized in a nursing home based on a distinct component of long-term care insurance called 'institutional care'.
As such, it represents a new and distinct component of delivery system design.
Traditionally, the event-based middleware and the Complex Event Processing CEPP) engine are viewed as two distinct components within a distributed system's architecture.
However, our series of ANETs also comprise tumors with a distinct neuronal component as well as variable other cytological morphologies [ 2, 17, 55, 56, 68].
