The phrase "as a free component" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is included without charge or as part of a larger system or package.
Example: "The software comes with several features, including a free component that enhances its functionality."
Alternatives: "as a complimentary part" or "as an included feature".
Microsoft responded by significantly altering its business and adding its own browser as a free component of its Windows operating system, ultimately undercutting Netscape's business.
In the mid-1990s Microsoft defeated Netscape Communications by embedding the Internet Explorer Web browser as a free component of its Windows operating system.
Offered as a free component of public education that is tailored to suit the unique needs of America's rural Latino population and their impoverished non-Hispanic neighbors, these new social media apps could lead the fight in the early diagnosis of vision problems and help eliminate the worsening of more severe learning disabilities in pastoral children.
This increase is due to the fact that factor IIa is sequestered in the formation of a complex with factor XI, and hence it is no longer available as a free component in blood to participate in other reactions, especially those reactions of the extrinsic pathway which principally lead to the clot formation in vivo.
Make your movie using 'Windows Movie Maker', which comes as a free component of many computers.
This large spectrum of petrochemicals and straight-chain C10-C21 alkanes can be directly used as diesel fuel supplement, or as a glycerine-free component of biodiesel.
The biomass generated was thermochemically converted into biogas, bio-solids and a range of liquid petrochemicals including straight-chain C12 to C21 alkanes which can be directly used as a glycerine-free component of biodiesel.
Different from the old model, our new model is consistent with the proposal that SNF participates in regulating Sxl splicing as a free protein instead of a component of U1 snRNP [14].
Thus, STAT92E physically interacts with H1, both as a free protein and as a component of reconstituted chromatin.
The introduction of Cel9A as a free or as a cellulosomal component had different impacts on the cellulolytic capacities of R. cellulolyticum.
The company is taking a different tactic with the Kindle Fire than Google's Play Store — offering ForeverMap2 as a free download with the offline maps component of the app only available via in-app purchase (on Google Play the app is a paid for download with one country offline map included in the initial price).
