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aliquoting

aliquoting is the present participle and gerund of aliquot.

Meaning of aliquot

Verb

aliquot (third-person singular simple present aliquots, present participle aliquoting or aliquotting, simple past and past participle aliquoted or aliquotted)

  1. (informal, transitive) To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
    • The nuclear pellet was resuspended in homogenizing buffer (about 25 ml), aliquoted into Eppendorf tubes and stored at -80°C.1994, Patricia Viola Racenis, Phosphatidate Biosynthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan, page 34

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Questions about aliquoting

What is aliquoting the present participle and gerund of?
Aliquoting is the present participle and gerund of aliquot.

Words near aliquoting in the dictionary

  1. aliquotation
  2. aliquotations
  3. aliquote
  4. aliquoted
  5. aliquotes
  6. aliquoting
  7. aliquots
  8. aliquotted
  9. aliquotting
  10. Alirajpur
  11. Alire

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aliquoting (page history and authors); aliquot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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