fractional process

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

   Synonymsfractionation

   Broaderindustrial process

   Narrowerdestructive distillationfractional distillation

Questions about fractional process

What does fractional process mean?

fractional process means "a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components".

What is another word for fractional process?

Close synonyms include fractionation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fractional process a common word?

fractional process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.