Saturday, July 7, 2012

Word of the Day for Saturday, July 7, 2012

aliquant \AL-i-kwuhnt\, adjective:

Contained in a number or quantity, but not dividing it evenly: An aliquant part of 16 is 5.

Cunning is the aliquant of talent; as hypocrisy is of religion; all the threes in the universe cannot make ten.
-- Thomas Hall, "The Fortunes and Adventures of Raby Rattler and His Man Floss"

...even though that number was an odd number and by a quarter the number of his confiteors, even though four was an aliquant part of two thousand to hundred and nineteen, nothing being changed with regard to the masses...
-- Raymond Queneau, "The Blue Flowers"

Aliquant stems from the Latin roots ali- meaning "differently" and quantus meaning "great."

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