FRACTIONATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)