Constituent

Look up constituent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Constituent or constituency may refer to:

In politics

The people of an area or district who vote for their congress person and are represented by him/her for the congressional period.

• Electoral district or constituency
• Constituent (politics), an individual voter within an electoral district (constituency)
• Interest group or constituency
• Constituent assembly
• entity forming part of a sovereign state:
  • Constituent state
  • Constituent country
• Constituency (administrative division), in Namibia and the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

In the physical sciences

• Constituent quark 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.

Other meanings

• Constituent (linguistics), a unit within a hierarchical structure of words.

See also

• Part (disambiguation)