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constituent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constituent \Con*stit"u*ent\, n.
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The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
--Sir M. Hale -
That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
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One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents.
--Abbot.To appeal from the representatives to the constituents.
--Macaulay. (Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
--Burrill.
Constituent \Con*stit"u*ent\ (k[o^]n*st[ict]t"[-u]*[-e]nt), a.
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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
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Having the power of electing or appointing.
A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
--Junius.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "one who appoints or elects a representative," from Latin constituentem (nominative constituens), present participle of constituere (see constitute). The notion is "to make up or compose" a body by appointing or electing a representative. As an adjective, "essential, characteristic," from 1660s; "that appoints or elects a representative to a body," from 1714.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 being a part, or component of a whole 2 authorized to make a constitution n. 1 a part, or component of a whole 2 The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs. 3 A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
WordNet
adj. constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) [syn: constituent(a), constitutional, constitutive(a), organic]
n. 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; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" [syn: component, element]
a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected"
(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction [syn: grammatical constituent]
an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "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" [syn: component, element, factor, ingredient]
Wikipedia
In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function(s) as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The analysis of constituent structure is associated mainly with phrase structure grammars, although dependency grammars also allow sentence structure to be broken down into constituent parts. The constituent structure of sentences is identified using constituency tests. These tests manipulate some portion of a sentence and based on the result, clues are delivered about the immediate constituent structure of the sentence. Many constituents are phrases. A phrase is a sequence of one or more words (in some theories two or more) built around a head lexical item and working as a unit within a sentence. A word sequence is shown to be a phrase/constituent if it exhibits one or more of the behaviors discussed below.
Constituent or constituency may refer to:
Usage examples of "constituent".
The antipoverty group lacks the 8,000 pounds a month to hire an LLM or other professional consultants, so Baker and his colleagues must themselves act as lobbyists on behalf of their low-income constituents.
Le pain et le lait constituent une alimentation beaucoup plus profitable que le pain seul.
In the next chapter I ask you simply to come with me through a day in the life of the lab as I go through the routine tasks of experimentation, training chicks, dissecting their brains, measuring their biochemical constituents in quantities of thousandths of a milligram, and trying to extract meaning from the tables of figures that these measurements produce.
Even the bunsen burner, pride of the collection, had separated into its constituent parts.
Rue Villedo, the maid-servant who opened the door to me ushered me into a room where were Carnot, Michel de Bourges, Jules Favre, and the master of the house, our former colleague, Constituent Leblond.
But he also had a friendly, low-key manner, came home and traveled his district on most weekends, and had a fabulous casework operation, helping little towns get water and sewer grants and securing government benefits for constituents, often from programs he had voted to slash back in Washington.
It is impossible to give a typical composition for such clays, as the percentages of the different constituents vary through such wide ranges.
These investigations have already progressed far enough to admit of the identification of some of the botanical constituents of the older peats and the younger lignites, and it is believed that the origin of the older lignites, and even of some of the more recent bituminous coals, may be developed through this examination.
We lacked enough material to test for trace constituents, but later on with more eggs at our disposal we did and nothing unusual showed up as far as contents of vitamins, coenzymes, nucleotides, sulfhydryl groups, et cetera, et cetera were concerned.
The form of the dataflows under analysis was not just the sum of their constituent parts.
From the limit-experience of the Other to the constituent forms of medical knowledge, and from the latter to the order of things and the conceptions of the Same, what is available to archaeological analysis is the whole of Classical knowledge, or rather the threshold that separates us from Classical thought and constitutes our modernity.
The black ink formulas of the eighth century are but few, and show marked improvement in respect to the constituents they call for, indicating that many of those of earlier times had been tried and found wanting.
Like formulas calling for different proportions of constituents both before and after his time in England and the continents of Europe and America are to be found in considerable number, proving that its use was more or less constant in this respect.
The researches under way show the wide variation in chemical composition and calorific value of the various crude oils, indicate the possibility of the extraction of coal constituents by solvents, and point to important results relative to the equilibrium of gases at high temperatures in furnaces and gas producers.
He had absorbed what he could of their individual memories, even as the wounded helper grubs were dissolved back down into their organic constituents.