FRACTIONAL PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fractional process mean? 

• FRACTIONAL PROCESS (noun)
  The noun FRACTIONAL PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components

  Familiarity information: FRACTIONAL PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRACTIONAL PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

fractional process; fractionation

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)