Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To divide or separate into parts; break up: "In the post-Watergate era, power has been fractionated on Capitol Hill” ( Evan Thomas).
- v. To separate (a chemical compound) into components, as by distillation or crystallization.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To subject to or obtain by the process of fractionation.
Wiktionary
- v. chemistry To separate (a mixture) into its individual constituents by exploiting differences in some chemical or physical property, such as boiling point, particle size, solubility etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.
WordNet 3.0
- v. separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents
- v. obtain by a fractional process
Etymologies
- fraction + -ate? (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You could sort of say that this is a very energized version of the conservative side of the Republican Party, or you can see it that this could be something that could just fractionate the Republican Party, tear it into fiscal Republicans and social Republicans, and whatever there is left of old mainline Republicans.”
“Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), one of the first American professors of science to fractionate petroleum by distillation (1854).”
“In the long term, Iraq will fractionate, much as the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia did.”
“I don't think they imagine me sitting with my cup of coffee on my bench as I drip fractionate gradients... counting off 10 drops into each well on a 96-well plate.”
“Hence the different isotopes are said to fractionate between two reservoirs reservoirs here being liquid and vapour.”
“His group was actively working to fractionate yeast and identify its active factor at the time of his death in”
“Evaporation will fractionate the isotopes and result in the residual water becoming enriched in oxygen 18.”
“Re #54, the upper atmosphere tends to fractionate according to molecular mass.”
“But once you fractionate happiness the way I do, not just positive emotion -- that's not nearly enough -- there's flow in life, and there's meaning in life.”
“The aim is to fractionate the brain into a series of labeled compartments, each assigned a definite function.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fractionate’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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medtech
terms found in documentation for implantable medical devices and IVD equip
distal, luer, stopcock, lumen, tortuosity, anneal, flouroscopy, radiopaque, distractor, toeing, tang, endoprosthesis and 173 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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To break or break apart
Verbs meaning break or break apart
fracture, rupture, herniate, fraction, disrupt, fissure, disject, breach, chine, fractionalize, fractionate, fractionize and 3 more...
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