constitutive

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Party competition is constitutive, then; it creates a system of conflict.

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  1. adjective Making a thing what it is; essential.
  2. adjective Having power to institute, establish, or enact.
  3. adjective 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.

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  • Another reactive species, nitric oxide (NO), is increased in the asthmatic airway. 14 Nitric oxide is produced by nitric oxide synthase (NOS), all isoforms of which-constitutive
  • Party competition is constitutive, then; it creates a system of conflict. —  Cato Daily Podcast
  • Since its inception, the definition of "enemy combatant" has seen significant evolution with respect to its two constitutive parts: enemy & combatant. —  IntLawGrrls
  • Furthermore FORC-A mediates constitutive reporter gene expression in transiently transformed Nicotiana benthamiana leaves as well as in stably transformed Arabidopsis plants. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • An anisotropic elasto-plastic constitutive model of paper material is presented. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. = French constitutif = Spanish Portuguese Italian constitutivo, from Latin as if *constitutivus, from constitutus, past participle: see constitute.
 

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