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constituent

adj
/kənˈstɪtjuənt/

Etymology

From Latin cōnstituēns, present participle of cōnstituō (“to establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuō (“to set, place, establish”).

  1. borrowed from cōnstituēns

Definitions

  1. Being a part or component of a whole.

    • Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.

  2. Constitutive or constituting.

    • The skeleton varies in the proportions, and even to a certain extent in the connexions, of its constituent bones.

  3. A part, or component of a whole.

    • We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
    • Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.

      • whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.

    2. A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to…

      A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.

      • He had been chief justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr. Booth, represented that county in parliament. Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding.

    3. A voter who supports a (political) candidate

      A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.

      • But he [Joe Biden] believes that non-college-educated voters, the neglected constituents he wants to take back from the Republicans, hardly know about the big bills emanating from Washington with banal names.

    4. One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact

    5. A functional element of a phrase or clause.

      • Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive s inflection in English without saying that it's a Noun Phrase inflection.

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Derived

biconstituent, bioconstituent, constituently, macroconstituent, microconstituent, multiconstituent, nonconstituent, phytoconstituent, subconstituent

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at constituent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at constituent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at constituent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA