More generally, it can also be a component of the concept associated with any grammatical unit, whether composed or not ('female' + 'performer' = 'the female performer' or 'the actress').
[1] An individual semantic feature constitutes one component of a word's intention, which is the inherent sense or concept evoked.
Correspondingly, the contrast in meanings of words is explained by diverging semantic features.
[6] In order to accomplish this aim, one approach is to analyze the internal semantic structure of a word as composed of a number of distinct and minimal components of meaning.
An alternative direction of research that contrasts with componential analysis is prototype semantics.