Crossword clues for aliquot
aliquot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aliquot \Al"i*quot\, a. [L. aliquot some, several; alius other + quot how many: cf. F. aliquote.] (Math.) 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.
Wiktionary
Contained in the whole an integral number of times; n. (context chemistry biotechnology English) a portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. v
(context slang chemistry biotechnology transitive English) to separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
WordNet
adj. signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity
n. an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity; "4 is an aliquot part of 12" [syn: aliquot part] [ant: aliquant]
Wikipedia
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
Usage examples of "aliquot".
She uses the glove box for the last time, breaking open a vial of sodium fluoride solution and injecting an aliquot into every one of the cell cultures.
His last aliquot for the night contained a culture material that stained like a bacterium but looked unlike anything he had ever seen.
He withdrew a small aliquot of the liquid and began setting up his test apparatus.
Someday soon he intended to remove a small aliquot of the drug and have a chemist he knew duplicate the formula.
The shares represent an aliquot portion of the whole corporate assets, and the property right so represented arises where the corporation has its home, and is therefore within the taxing jurisdiction of the State, notwithstanding that ownership of the stock may also be a taxable subject in another State.
Only when she can reliably and repeatedly grow the cell cultures does she finally expose them to microliter aliquots of Dr.
DNA chips, runs DNA isolated from the borehole samples through polymerase chain reactions to make thousands of random copies, and passes aliquots across the chips.
Twice each day, the hydrobot returned from its journey to inner space and delivered its real treasure: one-hundred-milliliter aliquots of ice containing a dizzying menagerie of microscopic life never before seen.
I quickly transferred aliquots of blood to three different vacutainers, then removed the needle from the syringe, all the while concealing the dot of red on my wrist where the needle had hit me.
They were given unique identification numbers and stored in small aliquots away from chemicals kept for general use.
Put aliquots from the trap into the two mediums and take them to the city reference lab.
During the case aliquots of the neurolept and analgesic agents were used as needed to maintain the proper depth of anesthesia.
On top was a film of mineral oil and beneath was an aliquot of culture fluid containing sixty or so female eggs.