FRACTIONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fractionate mean? 

• FRACTIONATE (verb)
  The verb FRACTIONATE has 2 senses:

1. separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents

2. obtain by a fractional process

  Familiarity information: FRACTIONATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRACTIONATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fractionate    ... he / she / it fractionates   
Past simple: fractionated   
Past participle: fractionated   
-ing form: fractionating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "fractionate" is one way to...):

separate (divide into components or constituents)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fractionation (separation into portions)

fractionation (a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obtain by a fractional process

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "fractionate" is one way to...):

separate (divide into components or constituents)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fraction (a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process)

fractionation (a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components)

 Context examples 

A fractionated cell extract that maintains a biological function.

(Cell-free System, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)