aliquot

Historical Examples of aliquot

• Or the third term of the proportion may be multiplied by the denominator of the fraction representing the aliquot part.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

  Arnold Cooley

• Aliquot, al′i-kwot, adj. such a part of a number as will divide it without a remainder.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

  Various

• This multiplied by 5/4 gives the total loss for the aliquot portion taken.

  Soap-Making Manual

  E. G. Thomssen

• They must secure for the states of the Southern Republic their aliquot share of the varied treasures of the West.

  The Little Lady of Lagunitas

  Richard Henry Savage

• Practice is performed by taking "aliquot parts;" to be a man of some "parts" is therefore necessary.

  Comic Arithmetic

  Anonymous