Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Chemical separation by successive operations, each removing from a liquid some proportion of one of the substances. The operation may be one of precipitation, or more familiarly of distillation.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the act or process of separating a mixture into portions of different composition, as in distillation or fractional crystallization.
- n. (Petroleum industry) Separation of crude oil into components of differing composition by fractional distillation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- n. separation into portions
Examples
“Hill he worked on methods of protein fractionation collaborating with Dr.A. J. P.”
“The progress of the fractionation is monitored by activity measurements.”
“Just quick question on and clarifying on the -- in terms -- in regards to our signed long-term fractionation agreement with Targa.”
“Channeling it all to market, both domestic and foreign, will require new pipelines and capacity for NGL refining, called fractionation.”
The Wall Street Journal: Pipe Dreams in America's New Energy Landscape
“These protein products, which are prepared from plasma via a process known as fractionation, are used to treat a wide variety of serious and often life-threatening conditions such as shock, trauma, infections, immunological disorders, Hemophilia A and B, and other blood disorders.”
“It all seems quite simple, fractionation occurs when biological material use CO2 - prefers lighter 12C.”
“This technique, called fractionation, is lifted from the field of hypnosis, and is reputed to be able to make women fall in love in as little as 14 minutes.”
“In recent years, psychiatrists have desperately sought to preserve the structure of diagnostic precision by resorting to increasing "fractionation," for example of the "bipolar spectrum into bipolar 3 disorder, bipolar 4 disorder, and so on.”
Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It
“In addition, in order to address the continued proliferation of thousands of new trust accounts caused by the "fractionation" of land interests through succeeding generations, the settlement establishes a $2 billion fund for the voluntary buy-back and consolidation of fractionated land interests.”
“This is fractionation which is an incredibly effective deepener and responsiveness builder . . . open/close three times, each time going even deeper, count down from three to one for eye closure and only close at one - fractionation deepener. confirming, hidden test”
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
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Driftology
Words combed from 'Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author,Who Went in Search of Them.'
driftology, beachcomber, skookum, wrack, jackstraw, driftologist, garbage patch, ghost net, autodumbfoundment, phytoplankton, gyre, hindcast and 58 more...
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