Definition of Constituent

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Constituent

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

Having the power of electing or appointing.

The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.

That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.

One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.

A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

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Constituent Quotations

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
Giacomo Casanova

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
Charles Hodge

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
William Irwin Thompson

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
Bob Black

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
Gabriel Lippmann

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Gilbert Newton Lewis

After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.
Fanny Kaplan

Constituent Translations

constituent in French is constituant
constituent in German is Schaltelement
constituent in Norwegian is velger

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