aliquants

Noun

aliquant (plural aliquants)

1. (dated) An integer that is less than another, but that does not divide the other integer into integral parts.
   • If half the latitude of the firſt vvave be an aliquant part of the ſtring, after the motion has been propagated to the fartheſt extremity, there vvill be a nevv ſeries of leſs vvaves, recurring in a contrary direction.1784, Matthew Young, “Sect[ion] I. Of the Motion of an Elastic Fibre.”, in An Enquiry into the Principal Phænomena of Sounds and Musical Strings, Dublin: […] Joseph Hill, […], →OCLC, part II (On...
2. A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample/specimen thereof) that does not divide evenly into it, thus leaving a (nonzero) remainder.
3. (broadly, proscribed, sometimes) Synonym of aliquot.

   Synonyms:

   aliquot

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