Constitutive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Making a thing what it is; essential.
  • adj. Having power to institute, establish, or enact.
  • adj. Of or relating to the synthesis of a protein or an enzyme at a constant rate regardless of physiological demand or the concentration of a substrate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something
  • adj. having the power or authority to appoint someone to office
  • adj. that makes something what it is; essential
  • adj. that forms a constituent part of something else
  • adj. (of an enzyme) that is continuously produced at a constant rate
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.
  • adj. Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Constituting, forming, or composing; constituent; elemental; essential.
  • Having power to enact or establish; instituting.
  • In the Kantian philosophy, principles according to which an object of pure intuition can be constructed a priori: opposed to regulative principles (which see, unite regulative).
  • In physical chemistry, a term introduced by Ostwald to denote those properties of a compound which depend on the constitution of the molecule, or on the mode of union and arrangement of the atoms in the molecule.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
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