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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ultimate constituent

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

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

The cell is the ultimate constituent in the formation and in the life of tissue, fibre, tendon, bone, muscle, brain, nerve system, vital organ.

From The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Trine, Ralph Waldo

A Russian chemist, Mendeleeff, drew up a table of the elements in illustration of this, grouping them in families, which seemed to point to hydrogen as the common parent, or ultimate constituent, of each.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

Nothing escapes her sway in this present state, except Nature which, while seeming to change, never really changes her ultimate constituent elements, or her universal laws.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)