Aliquot Definition

ălĭ-kwŏt, -kwət
aliquots
adjective
Of, relating to, or denoting an exact divisor or factor of a quantity, especially of an integer.
American Heritage
Designating or of a portion, part, or sample of a chemical, medicine, etc.
Webster's New World
Designating a part of a number that divides the number evenly and leaves no remainder.
8 is an aliquot part of 24
Webster's New World
Contained in the whole an integral number of times;
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Synonyms:
noun
aliquots
An aliquot part.
Webster's New World

(chemistry, biotechnology) A portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • aliquot part
Antonyms:
verb
(slang, chemistry, biotechnology) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
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Other Word Forms of Aliquot

Noun

Singular:
aliquot
Plural:
aliquots

Origin of Aliquot

  • Latin aliquot a number of, several alius some al-1 in Indo-European roots quot how many kwo- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.

    From Wiktionary

Aliquot Sentence Examples

  • Although it did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodosius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all eastern countries; and as it forms neither an aliquot part of the year nor of the lunar month, those who reject the Mosaic recital will be at a loss, as Delambre remarks, to assign it to an origin having much semblance of probability.

  • It is important to notice that in the Constructio logarithms are called artificial numbers; and Robert Napier states that the work was composed several years (aliquot annos) before Napier had invented the name logarithm.

  • One of his contemporaries was Edward Lee (c. 1482-1544) arch the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, bishop of York, famous for his attack on Erasmus, who replied to Cold Harbor and the long siege of Petersburg, in which, him in his Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum.

  • In wheels which rotate continuously for one revolution or more, it is obviously necessary that the pitch should be an aliquot part of the circumference.

  • A life of Bernard Gilpin, written by George Carleton, bishop of Chichester, who had been a pupil of Gilpin's at Houghton, will be found in Bates's Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum, &c. (London, 1681).

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