0 past simple and past participle of constitute
1 to be or be considered as something:
2 to form or make something:
Women constitute about ten percent of Parliament.
The under-18s constitute nearly 25 percent of the town's population.
The long-term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
The publishers claim that the book constitutes 'the first sequential exposition of events and thus of the history of the revolution'.
The takeover of the embassy constitutes a blatant violation of international law.
They felt that our discussions with other companies constituted a breach of our agreement.
Her refusal to sell the house constituted a major blow to our plans.
But archaeology should be engaged in examining exactly how subjects were constituted in the past in relation to specific sociopolitical apparatuses.
This would have constituted a solid front facing up the party politics, which ultimately destroyed the project.
One complete set of measurements was made upstream of curvature in the unperturbed boundary layer, and this constituted a reference set.
