Usually means: Separating mixtures into individual components.
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  1. fractionating: Merriam-Webster
  2. fractionating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fractionating: Vocabulary.com
  4. fractionating: Wordnik
  5. fractionating: Wiktionary
  6. fractionating: Dictionary.com
  7. fractionating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fractionating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See fractionate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fractionate)

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.
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:  To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.
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