aliquot

English

Etymology

From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.kwɒt/

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Adjective

aliquot (not comparable)

1. 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.

   • 1853, Joseph Whitworth, New York Industrial Exhibition: Official Report, page 166:

     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.

   • 1897, Edward Bellamy, chapter IV, in Equality‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     [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.

Antonyms

• aliquant

Translations

contained an integral number of times

• Catalan: alíquota (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 能整除的

• Georgian: ჯერადი (ǯeradi)
• German: aliquot (de)
• Greek: ομαλός διαιρέτης m (omalós diairétis)
• Hungarian: maradék nélkül osztható, egész számmal kifejezhető arányban osztható, maradéktalan/valódi osztó, aliquot (hu)
• Italian: aliquota (it) f
• Spanish: alícuota (es)

Noun

aliquot (plural aliquots)

1. (chemistry, biotechnology, broadly) A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample/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.

   • 2002, Code of Federal Regulations, 40: Parts 136-149, Protection of Environment, Office of the Federal Register, page 244:

     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.

   • 2011, Ganapati P. Patil, Sharad D. Gore, Charles Taillie, Composite Sampling, Springer, page 115:

     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.

   1. (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

• subaliquot

 

Translations

portion

• Catalan: alíquota (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 等份, 小份

• French: aliquote (fr) f
• German: Aliquote (de) f
• Italian: aliquota (it) f
• Portuguese: alíquota (pt) f
• Spanish: alícuota (es) f

Verb

aliquot (third-person singular simple present aliquots, present participle aliquoting or aliquotting, simple past and past participle aliquoted or aliquotted)

1. (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.

   • 2002, Joachim Close, “20: Preparation of Protein Samples from Mouse and Human Tissues for 2-D Electrophoresis”, in John M. Walker, editor, The Protein Protocols Handbook, Humana Press, page 144:

     The final solution is filtered, aliquoted into 150 μL portions, and stored at –70°C.

   • 2006, Elizabeth Ann Dille, Establishing an in Vitro Follicle Culture System to Study the Effect of Endometriosis on Infertility, University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 105:

     Serum was aliquoted into 10 mL aliquants and frozen at -20°C until use.

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aliquot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aliˈkvoːt/, /aliˈkvɔt/
• Hyphenation: ali‧quot

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Adjective

aliquot (strong nominative masculine singular aliquoter, not comparable)

1. aliquot
2. (Austria) proportional

   Synonyms: anteilig, anteilmäßig, anteilsmäßig

Declension

Positive forms of aliquot (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist aliquot	sie ist aliquot	es ist aliquot	sie sind aliquot
strong declension (without article)	nominative	aliquoter	aliquote	aliquotes	aliquote
	genitive	aliquoten	aliquoter	aliquoten	aliquoter
	dative	aliquotem	aliquoter	aliquotem	aliquoten
	accusative	aliquoten	aliquote	aliquotes	aliquote
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der aliquote	die aliquote	das aliquote	die aliquoten
	genitive	des aliquoten	der aliquoten	des aliquoten	der aliquoten
	dative	dem aliquoten	der aliquoten	dem aliquoten	den aliquoten
	accusative	den aliquoten	die aliquote	das aliquote	die aliquoten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein aliquoter	eine aliquote	ein aliquotes	(keine) aliquoten
	genitive	eines aliquoten	einer aliquoten	eines aliquoten	(keiner) aliquoten
	dative	einem aliquoten	einer aliquoten	einem aliquoten	(keinen) aliquoten
	accusative	einen aliquoten	eine aliquote	ein aliquotes	(keine) aliquoten

Derived terms

• Aliquote
• Aliquotflügel
• aliquotieren
• Aliquotierung
• Aliquotsaite
• Aliquotstimme
• Aliquotton

 

Further reading

• “aliquot” in Duden online
• “aliquot” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Etymology

ali- +‎ quot

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.kʷot/, [ˈälʲɪkʷɔt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.kwot/, [ˈäːlikwot̪]

Determiner

aliquot (indeclinable)

1. some; several; a few

Derived terms

• aliquotiēns

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	free choice	universal	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quīvis, quīlibet	quisque	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	utervīs, uterlibet	uterque		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubivīs, ubilibet	ubīque	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	°undelibet	undique			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	quōvīs, quōlibet		quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāvīs, quālibet	quāque		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	quōmodolibet	utīque	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōlibet	quandōque	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam	quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus	quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis	quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot	quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus	quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns	quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

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.