aliquot
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:33 am
I ran across this word whilst perusing an online Latin dictionary and remembered it from my undergraduate General Chemistry course waaaaaaayyyyyyyy back in my freshman year.
"I won't say that Noel Tungs' knowledge of Swedish is hard to measure, but it is just barely enough for an aliquot."
Suggested Usage:Latin:
aliquot : some, several.
General Chemistry:
aliquot: A sample of precisely determined amount taken from a material.
The EPA's definition:
aliquot
A measured portion of a sample taken for analysis. One or more aliquots make up a sample. (See: duplicate.) (Source: Office of Communications, Education, and Media Relations: Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms (Revised December 1997) Term Detail)
A portion of a sample. (Source: State of New Jersey: New Jersey Field Analysis Manual Term Detail)
Portion of a sample. (Source: Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water: A Dictionary of Technical and Legal Terms Related to Drinking Water Term Detail)
American Heritage Dictionary:
aliquot
SYLLABICATION: al·i·quot
PRONUNCIATION: ăl' ĭ-kwŏt', -kwət
ADJECTIVE: Of, relating to, or denoting an exact divisor or factor of a quantity, especially of an integer.
NOUN: An aliquot part.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin aliquot, a number of, several : alius, some; see al-[sup]1[/sup] in Appendix I + quot, how many; see k[sup]w[/sup]o- in Appendix I.
"I won't say that Noel Tungs' knowledge of Swedish is hard to measure, but it is just barely enough for an aliquot."