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aliquot
n.
quotient having no remainder (Mathematics)
Aliquot
Aliquot may refer to:
- Aliquot in chemistry or other science, a sample or portion of a total amount of a liquid
- Aliquot in pharmaceutics, a method of measuring ingredients below the sensitivity of a scale by proportional dilution with inactive ingredients
- Aliquot part, in the Public Land Survey System, a subdivision of a section based upon an even division by distances along the edges and not by equal area
- Genome aliquoting, the problem of reconstructing an ancestral genome from the genomes of polyploid descendants
aliquot
Noun
1. an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity; "4 is an aliquot part of 12"
(synonym) aliquot part
(antonym) aliquant, aliquant part
(hypernym) divisor
Adjective
1. signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity
(similar) fractional
Aliquot
(a.)
An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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N
some/several/a few people; more than one; a number