ultimate constituent
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
![]()
That it modifies the functions or reactivity of the ultimate constituent groups we have seen from the study of the esters.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by Cross, C. F.
A single word is seldom an integral element of speech; yet it may fairly be called the atom, the ultimate constituent of speech.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
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)
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.