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Constituent   /kənstˈɪtʃuənt/   Listen
Constituent

noun
1.
An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system.  Synonyms: component, element.  "A component or constituent element of a system"
2.
A member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes.
3.
Something determined in relation to something that includes it.  Synonyms: component, component part, part, portion.  "I read a portion of the manuscript" , "The smaller component is hard to reach" , "The animal constituent of plankton"
4.
(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction.  Synonym: grammatical constituent.
5.
An abstract part of something.  Synonyms: component, element, factor, ingredient.  "Two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony" , "The grammatical elements of a sentence" , "A key factor in her success" , "Humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
adjective
1.
Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup).  Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic.



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"Constituent" Quotes from Famous Books



... into brigades, regiments, and battalions, and regularly officered. In marching, it was separated into these its constituent parts, and sometimes in battle it acted in divisions. It was stationed in the center of the army on the field, and on the two sides of it were bodies of cavalry and foot soldiers, more lightly armed than the soldiers of the phalanx, who could accordingly move with more alertness and speed, and ...
— Alexander the Great - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... are the securities which we have in all the constituent parts of the body of this House. We know them, we reckon, we rest upon them, and commit safely the interests of India and of humanity into your hands. Therefore, it is with confidence that, ordered by the ...
— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty
... at the Pavilion of Flora seemed not only to give universal satisfaction to every individual of the Royal Family, but it was hailed with much enthusiasm by many deputies of the constituent Assembly. I was honoured with the respective visits of all who were in any degree well disposed to ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... a 120-member constituent assembly based on proportional representation within each province was established following the UN-supervised election in May 1993; the constituent assembly was transformed into a legislature in September 1993 after ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... practical and scientific men interested in the coffee business. This elusive material has been variously called caffeol, caffeone, "the essential oil of coffee," etc., the terms having acquired an ambiguous and incorrect significance. It is now generally agreed that the aromatic constituent of coffee is not an essential oil, but a complex of compounds which usage has caused to be ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers


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