Constituent
Encyclopedia
In politics
- Electoral districtElectoral districtAn electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...
or constituency - Constituent (politics), an individual voter within an electoral constituency
- Interest group or constituency
- Constituent assemblyConstituent assemblyA constituent assembly is a body composed for the purpose of drafting or adopting a constitution...
- entity forming part of a sovereign state:
- Constituent stateConstituent stateA constituent state, constituent entity, or constituent part, is a territorial and constitutional entity forming part of a sovereign state...
- Constituent countryConstituent countryConstituent country is a phrase sometimes used in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity. The term constituent country does not have any defined legal meaning, and is used simply to refer to a country which is a part Constituent country is a phrase sometimes used in contexts...
- Constituent state
- Constituency (administrative division)Constituency (administrative division)Constituency is used as a term for an administrative division in Namibia and the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland....
, in Namibia and the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
In the physical sciences
- Constituent quarkConstituent quarkA constituent quark is a current quark with a covering.In the low energy limit of QCD, a description by means of perturbation theory is not possible. Here, no Asymptotic freedom exists, but the interactions between valence quarks and sea quarks gain strongly on significance...
is a current quark with a covering - Particle is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical properties such as volume or mass.