Aliquot

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Aliquot is a Latin word meaning “some” or “several”; its adverbial form aliquoties means “several times". In English aliquot may be used as a noun or adjective with the following meanings.

• In mathematics, an aliquot part is another name for a proper divisor of an integer. By contrast, an aliquant part (or simply aliquant) is a smaller number that is not a proper divisor.
• The aliquot sum of an integer is the sum of its aliquot parts.
• An aliquot sequence is a sequence of integers in which each number is the aliquot sum of the previous number.
• Aliquot stringing in music refers to the use of strings which are not struck to make a note but which resonate sympathetically with struck notes.

Additionally:

• An aliquot in chemistry is a portion of a total amount of a solution.
• In pharmaceutics, aliquot refers to a method of measuring ingredients below the sensitivity of a scale by proportional dilution with inactive ingredients.
• An aliquot part, in the U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS), is the standard subdivision of the area of a section based upon an even division by distances along the edges and not by equal area.

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