fractionate

Questions about fractionate

What does fractionate mean?

fractionate means "separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fractionate?

fractionate has 4 syllables and divides as frac-ti-o-nate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is fractionate a common word?

fractionate 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.