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constitutive

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con·sti·tu·tive  (knst-ttv, -ty-)
adj.
1. Making a thing what it is; essential.
2. Having power to institute, establish, or enact.
3. 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.

consti·tutive·ly adv.

constitutive [ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːtɪv]
adj
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) having power to enact, appoint, or establish
2. (Chemistry) Chem (of a physical property) determined by the arrangement of atoms in a molecule rather than by their nature
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) Biochem (of an enzyme) formed continuously, irrespective of the cell's needs
4. another word for constituent [1]
constitutively  adv
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Adj.1.constitutive - constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
essential - basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"


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Yet when one of the two contraries is a constitutive property of the subject, as it is a constitutive property of fire to be hot, of snow to be white, it is necessary determinately that one of the two contraries, not one or the other, should be present in the subject; for fire cannot be cold, or snow black.
 
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