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US
/ˌkɑnˈstɪtuˌtɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
How To Use constitutive In A Sentence
- This explains why the initial idea about the constitutive elements of civil society here was fairly urban-biased and middle class-related.
- There is a possible metaphysic that suggests that a thing's representations are not secondary and inferior to it but are constitutive of that thing.
- The cloned child would have her uniquely individuating consciousness that would be constitutive of her personal identity.
- Law has often been ignored as a constitutive element of social organization, but it plays an important part in the definition of social roles and distribution of resources.
- This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
- I am experimentally and numerically studying the stress distribution undernath the padfoot roller at the first stage, I need to have a constitutive model for soil with both dilatancy and hardening behaviors. IMechanica - Comments
- S. macrurus stands to conserve more energy through reductions in EOD amplitude during periods of inactivity than is expended by the constitutive cycling of channels in the electrocyte. PLoS Biology: New Articles
- Its constitutive power can never be thought of in historical terms because it presupposes moving out of the structures that define an historical condition.
- More specifically, a general or working knowledge of regional variations also illustrates that the constitutive elements of the regional compositions differ.
- Here, I will consider the death penalty solely as a constitutive element of our political arrangements.