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FRACTIONATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fractionate ... he / she / it fractionates
Past simple: fractionated
Past participle: fractionated
-ing form: fractionating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Obtain by a fractional process
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "fractionate" is one way to...):
separate (divide into components or constituents)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
fraction (a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process)
fractionation (a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "fractionate" is one way to...):
separate (divide into components or constituents)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
fractionation (separation into portions)
fractionation (a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components)
