Constituent (Noun)
Meaning 1
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".
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
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".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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- Add-on
- Making
- Auto Part
- Spare Part
- Addition
- Landside
- Ingredient
- Retrofit
- Spark Gap
- Hardware
- Module
- Accessory
- Heating Element
- Audio
- Pixel
- Supplement
- Input
- Crystal
- Improver
- Picture Element
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Meaning 4
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".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 5
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.