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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aliquot /ˈalɪkwɒt/

▶noun

1 a portion of a larger whole, especially a sample taken for chemical analysis or other treatment.

2 (also aliquot part or portion) Mathematics a quantity which can be divided into another an integral number of times.

▶verb divide (a whole) into aliquots.

– origin C16: from Fr. aliquote, from L. aliquot ‘some, so many’, from alius ‘one of two’ + quot ‘how many’.

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