单词 | aliquot |
释义 | aliquotadj.n. A. adj. Mathematics. Contained in a larger number a certain number of times without leaving any remainder; forming an exact divisor; (gen.) constituting a portion or fraction, fractional. Contrasted with aliquant. Chiefly in aliquot part. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > divisor or dividend > without remainder partc1300 quotea1464 divisor1557 aliquot part1570 greatest common measure1570 measure1570 multiplex1570 aliquot1610 multiple1685 submultiple1702 least common multiple1714 bipartient1819 least squares1847 1570 H. Billingsley in tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 126 This..is called..a measuryng part..and of the barbarous it is called pars aliquota, that is an aliquote part. 1600 T. Hylles Arte Vulgar Arithm. iii. i. Pp vij Four Mites is the aliquot part of a peny, viz. 1/ 6, for 6. times 4 is 24. and so many mites marchants assigne to 1. peny. 1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5153 The Aliquot parts or Just Divisors. 1700 Moxon's Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 133 Incommensurable Quantities have no Aliquot parts. 1757 J. Harris Ess. Money & Coins 9 None of our coins are aliquot or even parts of our weights. 1780 J. Burnett Let. 11 July in R. Price Corr. (1991) II. 61 The consequence of which..is that our Mind must be both figured and Divisible into aliquote parts, such as a half, third, or fourth. a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) IV. 802 The aliquot subdivision of a vibrating string. 1877 Ld. Rayleigh Theory of Sound I. vi. 141 The production of ‘harmonics’ by lightly touching the string at the points of aliquot division is a well-known resource of the violinist. 1899 Proc. Royal Soc. 65 83 An aliquot part of each was then titrated with Fehling's solution. 1922 Trans. Amer. Inst. Chem. Engineers 13 245 The present day practice of making chromeglue by mixing an aliquote part of shavings to the pieces. 1993 Dyes & Pigments 21 18 Aliquot portions of this solution were diluted. 2007 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 15 Sept. 8 In order to multiply money we learned the aliquot parts of the pound which made computation easier. B. n. 1. Mathematics. An exact divisor. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > divisor or dividend > without remainder partc1300 quotea1464 divisor1557 aliquot part1570 greatest common measure1570 measure1570 multiplex1570 aliquot1610 multiple1685 submultiple1702 least common multiple1714 bipartient1819 least squares1847 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xxx. 434 This kinde of part we call an aliquote [L. Hoc genus partis aliquotam nostri vocant]. 1737 S. Stonehouse Treat. Arithm. x. 168 The Geometricians..have been obliged to have Recourse to Multiples, Equimultiples, and Aliquots of the Quantities they compared. 1777 W. Jones Ess. ii. 196 Accessory sounds..caused by the aliquots of a sonorous body vibrating at once. 1866 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 423 The length of any object stated to contain a given number of such units or its aliquots. 1870 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 160 397 Another point of much interest is the evaluation of the spotted area in numerical aliquots of the solar surface. 1935 A. Bongiorno & A. Livingston tr. V. Pareto Mind & Society II. vi. 578 For mathematicians the term ‘perfect’ is a just label..serving to designate a number equal to the sum of its aliquots. 1962 E. Stoddard Speed Math. Simplified xiv. 180 Since we count by the decimal system, based on ten, the aliquots of most use to us in short-cut mathematics are aliquots of ten, a hundred, a thousand, and so on. 2. Biology and Medicine. Each of two or more samples, typically of identical volume or weight, taken from a larger quantity of a substance for analysis or other procedure. ΚΠ 1910 Proc. 26th Ann. Convent. Assoc. Official Agric. Chemists 110 Decant on to a small dry filter and pipette off aliquots for the determination of vanillin, coumarin, and the lead number. 1958 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 44 412 Eight 30-cc. aliquots of a stock solution..were exposed to 9-kilocycle sonic waves. 1986 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 May 1336/2 Aliquots of blood drawn at time zero and at 60 minutes were examined. 2006 A. Goodman Intuition iv. ii. 153 They'd been freezing one-milliliter aliquots of virus in lysate solutions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). aliquotv. transitive. To measure out (a substance) into small samples of equal size; to divide into aliquot parts, esp. for use as experimental samples. Usually in passive. ΚΠ 1873 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 105 137 It is therefore both stout and delicate enough for standarding [sic] liter flasks, aliquoting bulky solutions, or for other large weighings, where considerable accuracy is required. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Aliquot, to divide into equal parts which are a multiple or a sub-multiple of another quantity. 1952 Lab. Design Handling Radioactive Materials (National Res. Council (U.S.). Building Res. Advisory Board) 71/1 In that work we are not blessed with the ability to aliquot and get down to microcurie levels and then use microchemical methods. 1980 Exper. Parasitol. 50 360/1 The resultant preparation was examined microscopically..and then aliquoted into sterile 2.0-ml vials. 2008 Methods 46 271/2 The fact that both strands are indeed utilized in PCR [= polymerase chain reaction] can be verified by denaturing DNA prior to aliquoting the template for single molecule PCR. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1570v.1873 |
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