Constructor definition

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(motorsport) A company or individual who builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors , while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
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A person who, or thing that constructs.
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(programming) A class method (in object-oriented programming) that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
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Alternative Form of constructor - constructer

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Noun

Singular:
constructor
Plural:
constructors

Constructor Sentence Examples

  • Resigning from the army in 1836, he became a civil engineer and constructor of railways, and was engaged under the war department in survey work.

  • In these circumstances the constructor has two broad alternatives between which to choose.

  • Consequently the Gaussian theory only supplies a convenient method of approximating to reality; and no constructor would attempt to realize this unattainable ideal.

  • Although planned in the shape of a cross, with a square and tower in the middle, the arms of the cross are not straight, the constructor holding the ingenious opinion that, in order to prevent little towns from being taken in at a glance, their streets should be crooked.

  • In correcting the elements of Delambre's solar tables he had been led to suspect an inequality overlooked by their constructor.

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