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constitutive
[ kon-sti-too-tiv, -tyoo- ]
adjective
- constituent; making a thing what it is; essential.
- having power to establish or enact.
- Physics, Chemistry. pertaining to a molecular property determined primarily by the arrangement of atoms in the molecule rather than by their nature or number.
constitutive
/ ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːtɪv /
adjective
- having power to enact, appoint, or establish
- chem (of a physical property) determined by the arrangement of atoms in a molecule rather than by their nature
- biochem (of an enzyme) formed continuously, irrespective of the cell's needs
- another word for constituent
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Derived Forms
- ˈconstiˌtutively, adverb
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Other Words From
- consti·tutive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of constitutive1
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Example Sentences
Meanwhile, vulnerability, risk, unpredictability, and sudden transformation are the constitutive experiences of human life.
They were a duality the constitutive forces of which alternately assumed supremacy.
A certain theory is seen to be essential to the fact, a certain theology to be the constitutive force in the religion.
They are a priori conditions, subjective in one sense, but objective as being universal, necessary and constitutive of experience.
At the time that the constitutive body made this law, ten million voters were registered on the election rolls.
Period in which the republic is constituted, and of the Constitutive National Assembly.
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