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FRACTIONATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Separation into portions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fractionation" is a kind of...):
division (the act or process of dividing)
Derivation:
fractionate (separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
Synonyms:
fractional process; fractionation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("fractionation" is a kind of...):
industrial process (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fractionation"):
destructive distillation (heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products)
fractional distillation (fractionation of a liquid by distillation)
Derivation:
fractionate (obtain by a fractional process)
fractionate (separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents)
