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# Component Hierarchy

Components have a hierarchy. A component can have one or more parent component, and a component can have one or more children components.

If a process is referenced by an API, the API component is the parent of the process. Components referenced by the process are its children (descendants).

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[Referenced Components](/boomi-console/help-text/referenced-components.md)
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