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fractionate

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fractionate.

Editorial note

Can you briefly summarize how you take peripheral blood and fractionate it out to these small bits.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fractionate gathered in one view.

verb

To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.

verb

(radiotherapy) To divide a total dose of radiation into fractions.

verb

(cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fractionate.

verb

To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.

verb

(radiotherapy) To divide a total dose of radiation into fractions.

verb

(cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.

verb

(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.

Example sentences

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Can you briefly summarize how you take peripheral blood and fractionate it out to these small bits.

2

If anything works, you then fractionate the extract somehow (eg by chromatography), and put each fraction through your assay.

3

There isn’t a practical way to fractionate their revenue or determine what proportion of their profit is derived from your data.

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But then, you have to distill it and strip out the sulfur and other elemental contaminants and fractionate it and crack it...

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Trying to fractionate the discussion between the innumerable number of differing outlooks when speaking about a nation, is not practical or constructive.

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The point of actually doing things to instill confidence is to give few to no reasons for society to fractionate down the middle.

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Importantly, its not newsworthy, and the sole purpose is to fractionate viewers.

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We fractionate the ethane out from natural gas, and we’re fracking a lot of natural gas.

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It might actually be a good policy to de-fractionate jobs.

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With all that available energy it’d make more sense to just throw the whole rock into a smelter and fractionate the elements as they boil off.

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The dream would be to efficiently fractionate your algae, and separate out lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and specific high value stuff like phycocyanin or astaxanthin.

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You pick fractions which work, fractionate them further, assay the sub-fractions, and repeat until you have got a pure substance with some activity, which you then characterise.

Quote examples

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When that started going away, I wonder if the people who lamented the loss ever got hit with "I assume you fractionate your own petroleum".

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Speak "insurmountable fractionate fast" wscript.sleep 15000 sapi.

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> I wonder if the people who lamented the loss ever got hit with "I assume you fractionate your own petroleum".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fractionate in a sentence?

Can you briefly summarize how you take peripheral blood and fractionate it out to these small bits.

What does fractionate mean?

To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.

What part of speech is fractionate?

fractionate is commonly used as verb.