Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or denoting an exact divisor or factor of a quantity, especially of an integer.
- noun An aliquot part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forming an exact measure of something: applied to a part of a number or quantity which will measure it without a remainder: thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15.
- noun That which forms an exact measure; an aliquot part: as, 4 is an aliquot of 12.
- To divide into equal parts which are a multiple or a submultiple of another quantity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) An
aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder. Opposed toaliquant .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Contained in the whole an integral number of times;
- noun chemistry, biotechnology a
portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. - verb slang, chemistry, biotechnology, transitive to separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity
- adjective signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Blood Bank supports over 20,000 transfusions a year including specialized washed, irradiated, and aliquot products along with an active fresh whole blood program.
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Also, there are many non-Austrian, non-libertarians who had more than an aliquot share of disappointment.
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Every now and then, I'm blessed with a moment; an aliquot of time apart from the usual hustle and bustle, the endless rushing here and there between appointments and obligations to just stop and be, quietly at one with the universe.
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Hypothetically you could thaw a packet of frozen spinach, aliquot it out to single use bags, and keep one thawed at a time.
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Every now and then, I'm blessed with a moment; an aliquot of time apart from the usual hustle and bustle, the endless rushing here and there between appointments and obligations to just stop and be, quietly at one with the universe.
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Right of one who has discharged a common liability to recover of another also liable, the aliquot portion which he ought to pay or bear.
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Puellae extra urbem in prato concurrentes, &c. maesta et melancholica domum rediit per dies aliquot vexata, dum mortua est.
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Spiritualem animam a reliquis distinctam tuetur, etiam in cadavere inhaerentem post mortem per aliquot menses.
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Rem curans domesticam, ut ante, peperit aliquot liberos, semper tamen tristis et pallida.
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Desiderium suum testatus post inediam aliquot dierum interiit.
edwardvielmetti commented on the word aliquot
"the appropriate aliquot of love"
October 2, 2007
zuccaciyecioglu commented on the word aliquot
Each share of the Coggins class is to receive, as rescissory damages, its aliquot share of the present assets. Coggins v. New England Patriots, 397 Mass. 525 (1986).
March 2, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word aliquot
US Railway Assn. Standard Cipher Code, 1906: telegraphers' shorthand for "Is a special agreement necessary?".
January 19, 2013
MaryW commented on the word aliquot
"it was the last of what I had cooked, frozen, and packed in aliquots many weekends ago."
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
October 11, 2015
MaryW commented on the word aliquot
Misha Angrist, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), ch. 3 (Kindle loc. 567)December 17, 2016