(a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
(a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
(n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
(n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
(n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
(n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(3) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(4) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(5) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(6) Although no anatomical 'barrier' has been described, it has been suggested that the gel mucus and epithelial phospholipids are constituents.
(7) Voters would have to collect the signatures of 10% of constituents to force a byelection.
(8) Concentrations of each constituent were correlated with the growth inhibitions of Bacillus subtilis (IP-5832).
(9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(10) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(11) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
(12) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
(13) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
(14) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(15) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
(16) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(17) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
(18) It was because MPs have to face their constituents."
(19) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
(20) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
Phlogiston
Definition:
(n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the 18th century, the elegant but incorrect phlogiston theory (G.E.
(2) The combined efforts of these analytical minds converted an illogical phlogiston myth into a practical and therapeutic principle.
(3) Between 1775 and about 1800 the Phlogiston theory was replaced by the Oxygen theory.
(4) In refuting the phlogiston theory, he established modern chemistry.