meaning of constituent
1. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
2. Having the power of electing or appointing.
3. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
4. That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
5. One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
6. A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
7. 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
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