FRACTIONATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fractionation mean? 

• FRACTIONATION (noun)
  The noun FRACTIONATION has 2 senses:

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

2. separation into portions

  Familiarity information: FRACTIONATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRACTIONATION (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 ("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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Methods of fractionation, isolation, and purification based on the physico-chemical properties of the substance, e.g. crystallization, distillation, solubility (miscibility).

(Chemical Fractionation, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived, after depolymerisation and fractionation, from medical-grade porcine unfractionated heparin (UFH), bemiparin has an average molecular weight of 3,600 daltons and has a higher anti-factor Xa/anti-factor IIa ratio (8:1) than first-generation LMWHs.

(Bemiparin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)