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Adjective: constitutive  'kón-sti,t(y)oo-tiv or kun'sti-chu-tiv
  1. Being a part of something, esp. part of the physical structure
    "They attended a workshop on the constitutive relations of soils";
    - constituent, constitutional, component

See also: essential

Encyclopedia: Constitutive