aliquot

== English == === Etymology === From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/ (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/ (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/ === Adjective === aliquot (not comparable) Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor. 1794, George Adams (Jr), Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing, in a Familiar and Easy Manner, The Principal Phenomena of Nature, and Shewing, That They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God, If, therefore, every aliquot diviſion produced a ſenſible effect by it's[sic] vibration, we ſhould hear in every muſical ſtring an infinite variety of chords, diſſonant and conſonant, in ſharp and flat keys at the ſame time. ==== Antonyms ==== aliquant ==== Translations ==== === Noun === aliquot (plural aliquots) (chemistry, biotechnology, loosely) A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension). Synonym: aliquant (loose sense) Hypernyms: part, portion, subsample Meronym: subaliquot 1965 December 1, Martha Smith Richmond, Analysis of Uranium Concentrates at the National Bureau of Standards, National Bureau of Standards, NBS Misc. Publ. 260-8, page 26, Two aliquots each of 57 sample solutions and 15 solutions of NBS Standard No. 950a were assayed. (chemistry, biotechnology, strictly) Such a portion that divides evenly into the total with no remainder. Hypernyms: part, portion, subsample Meronym: subaliquot Coordinate term: aliquant (strict sense) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === aliquot (third-person singular simple present aliquots, present participle aliquoting or aliquotting, simple past and past participle aliquoted or aliquotted) (chemistry, biotechnology, transitive, informal) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. 1994, Patricia Viola Racenis, Phosphatidate Biosynthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan, page 34, The nuclear pellet was resuspended in homogenizing buffer (about 25 ml), aliquoted into Eppendorf tubes and stored at -80°C. == German == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin aliquot. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aliˈkvoːt/, /aliˈkvɔt/ Hyphenation: ali‧quot === Adjective === aliquot (strong nominative masculine singular aliquoter, not comparable) aliquot (Austria) proportional Synonyms: anteilig, anteilmäßig, anteilsmäßig ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “aliquot” in Duden online “aliquot” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache == Latin == === Etymology === ali- +‎ quot === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.lɪ.kʷɔt] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.li.kʷot] === Determiner === aliquot (indeclinable) some; several; a few ==== Derived terms ==== aliquotiēns ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: aliquot German: aliquot French: aliquote Interlingua: aliquot Portuguese: alíquota Spanish: alícuota === References === “aliquot”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aliquot”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aliquot”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.