- serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
- having power to frame or alter a political constitution or fundamental law, as distinguished from lawmaking power: a constituent assembly.
- an element, material, etc. that is part of something else; component.
- a person who authorizes another to act on their behalf, such as a voter in a district represented by an elected official.
- an element considered as part of a construction.
- forming part of a whole; component
- having the power to frame a constitution or to constitute a government (esp in the phrases constituent assembly, constituent power)
- electing or having the power to elect
- a component part; ingredient
- a resident of a constituency, esp one entitled to vote
- a person who appoints another to act for him, as by power of attorney
- a word, phrase, or clause forming a part of a larger construction
