In a way that treats or operates on each component or part separately, one at a time.
From component plus the suffix -wise (meaning 'in the manner or direction of'), borrowed from similar formations like clockwise. Common in mathematics and computing.
Componentwise operations are how computer graphics work—when you rotate an image, the computer doesn't move the whole thing at once, it rotates each pixel's coordinates componentwise, thousands of times per second!
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