Inside the vessel, a pendulum hung motionless until a tremor moved it. At this point, the pendulum's swing set the seismograph's internal levers in motion. This would trigger the release of a ball held in the mouth of the dragon facing the direction of the earthquake's epicenter. The ball would then fall into the mouth of the frog directly below it [source: Xinhua News Agency].
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: aliquot (Noun). a portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. aliquot (Verb). to separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. aliquot (Adjective). Contained in the whole an integral number of times; Origin: From aliquote, from aliquot.
Definition of clot. 1  1 : a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) 2  2a : a roundish viscous lump formed by coagulation of a portion of liquid or by meltingb : a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood. 3  3 British : blockhead.  4 : cluster, group a clot of spectators.