1 a person who lives, and can vote in a constituency:
She has the full support of her constituents.
2 one of the parts of sth that combine to form the whole:
Silicon and oxygen are the fundamental constituents of rocks in the earth's crust.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (formal) forming or helping to make a whole:
to break something up into its constituent parts / elements * the country's constituent republics
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