aliquot
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biotechnology
chemistry
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.
Inflected forms:
form: aliquots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aliquots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aliquoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aliquotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aliquoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aliquoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: aliquotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aliquotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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 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.
The United States standard yard … has a thin strip of silver, ¹⁄₅ inch broad, let into it through its entire length. It is divided into small divisions, each being an aliquot part of an inch.
Prices or cost estimates are put on these commodities and services, and the aggregate sum of the prices being divided by the population gives the amount of the citizen's personal credit, which is simply his aliquot share of the commodities and services available for the year.
[T]he meal should be divided in aliquot parts among the members of the sick and indigent roomkeeper’s association as a token of his regard and esteem.
gloss: A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
11.5.3 For each sample or sample batch (to a maximum of 20 samples) to be extracted during the same 12-hour shift, weigh two 10 g aliquots of the appropriate reference matrix (Section 7.6) into clean beakers or glass jars.
Composite samples are formed by physically mixing aliquots of individual samples. If aliquots of equal volumes are used, then the composite sample values are simply the arithmetic averages of individual sample values.
gloss: A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Meronym: subaliquot
gloss: To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: 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.
The final solution is filtered, aliquoted into 150 μL portions, and stored at –70°C.
Serum was aliquoted into 10 mL aliquants and frozen at -20°C until use.
Antonyms: aliquant
Derived words: subaliquot
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