ultimate constituent

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. an element of a construction that cannot be further divided into grammatical constituents: the morphemes of an utterance are usually considered to be its ultimate constituents.

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ultimate constituent British  

noun

1. a constituent of something, such as a linguistic construction, that cannot be further subdivided in the terms of the analysis being undertaken Compare immediate constituent

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Example Sentences

Somewhere in the depths of space, he believed, helium, oxygen, silicon and iron were being formed from the ultimate constituent of all matter, the electron.

From Time Magazine Archive

Physicists tell us that matter is made of electricity, that it is an electrical phenomenon, and that the ultimate constituent of matter is the electron.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

Biophore: an ultimate constituent of germ plasm or hereditary substance.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The ultimate constituent of matter has been called the atom.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

The soul is his inmost, the mind his middle, and the body his ultimate constituent.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel