ALL meanings of fractionate
frac·tion·ate
F f - noun fractionate Divide into fractions or components. 1
- verb with object fractionate to separate or divide into component parts, fragments, divisions, etc. 1
- verb with object fractionate to separate (a mixture) into ingredients or into portions having different properties, as by distillation or crystallization; cause to undergo fractional distillation, crystallization, or the like. 1
- verb with object fractionate to obtain by such a process. 1
- verb fractionate (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. 0
- verb fractionate (cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption. 0
- verb fractionate to separate or cause to separate into constituents or into fractions containing concentrated constituents 0
- verb fractionate to obtain (a constituent of a mixture) by a fractional process 0
- verb transitive fractionate to separate into fractions, or parts 0
- verb transitive fractionate to separate into fractions by crystallization, distillation, etc. 0