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ultimate constituent

American

noun

Grammar.

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.

ultimate constituent British

noun

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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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 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

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

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

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

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