FRACTIONAL PROCESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components

Synonyms:

fractional process; fractionation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("fractional process" 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 "fractional process"):

destructive distillation (heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products)

fractional distillation (fractionation of a liquid by distillation)