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Adjective
/kənˈstiCHo͞oənt/,
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Being a part of a whole,
  1. Being a part of a whole
    • - the constituent minerals of the rock
  2. Being a voting member of a community or organization and having the power to appoint or elect
    • - the constituent body has a right of veto
  3. Able to make or change a political constitution
    • - a constituent assembly
Noun
  1. A member of a constituency

  2. A component part of something
    • - the essential constituents of the human diet
  3. The common part of two or several more complex forms, e.g., gentle in gentleman, gentlemanly, ungentlemanly

  4. A word or construction that is part of a larger construction

  1. component: 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"
  2. constituent(a): constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
  3. 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"
  4. part: something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
  5. (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
  6. component: 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"
  7. In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that functions as a single unit within a hierarchical structure.
  8. In politics, the term constituent has three separate meanings: *A constituent state or constituent nation is a fundamental part of a union which has come together with others to form the union, e.g. US States, or UK constituent countries. ...
  9. A constituency is any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty. Constituency can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves. ...
  10. (Constituency (administrative division)) Constituency is used as a term for an administrative division in Namibia and the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
  11. (Constituency (France)) France is divided into 577 circonscriptions or constituencies for legislative elections. Deputies are elected in a two round system to a term that is for a maximum of five years. The last redistricting took place in 1986.
  12. (Constituency (UK)) In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.
  13. a part, or component of a whole; a resident of a place represented by an elected official; a functional element of a phrase or clause; being a part, or component of a whole; authorized to make a constitution
  14. (constituency) A district represented by one or more elected officials; The voters within such a district; An interest group or fan base
  15. (Constituents) A group of residents represented by an elected official.
  16. Program constituents are the group of people affected by or interested in the program. There are two categories of constituents, primary and secondary. The primary constituents are the groups most directly impacted by the programs and include students, faculty, alumni, and industry. ...
  17. (Constituents) All the actors who have a significant influence on a set of social issues, both as they are now and as they are envisioned in the future. They are 'constituent of' the problem being address, and its solution. ...
  18. (Constituents) People who live in a given senate or assembly district.
  19. (Constituents) Residents of a legislative district, known as a constituency or "riding," represented by a member of the House of Commons or, according to regional divisions, by an individual appointed to the Senate.
  20. (Constituents) Said to contain a poisonous volatile oil and to have properties similar to those of Myrica cerifera. The leaves have been used in France as an emmenagogue and abortifacient.
  21. (Constituents) customers of politicians
  22. (constituents) In PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions, friends, alumni, organizations, foundations, or other entities affiliated with the institution, and about which the institution maintains information. ...
  23. (constituents) are units in a hierarchical structure: nodes in a syntactic, morphological, or syllabic tree (see mother node and daughter node).
  24. (CONSTITUENCY) When used to refer to business entities, those entities for which constituent filed documents are filed with the Secretary of State.
  25. (Constituency) "Implicit in the purpose of a Computer Security Incident Response Team is the existence of a constituency. This is the group of users, sites, networks or organizations served by the team. The team must be recognized by its constituency in order to be effective. ...