Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divide or separate into parts; break up.
- transitive verb To separate (a chemical mixture) into components, as by distillation or crystallization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To subject to or obtain by the process of fractionation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents
- verb obtain by a fractional process
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), one of the first American professors of science to fractionate petroleum by distillation (1854).
Silliman, Benjamin 2009
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In the long term, Iraq will fractionate, much as the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia did.
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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.
(Un)glamorous ScienceMama 2007
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Hence the different isotopes are said to fractionate between two reservoirs reservoirs here being liquid and vapour.
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Evaporation will fractionate the isotopes and result in the residual water becoming enriched in oxygen 18.
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Re #54, the upper atmosphere tends to fractionate according to molecular mass.
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His group was actively working to fractionate yeast and identify its active factor at the time of his death in
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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.
Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004
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