English-Finnish translations for fractionate

• erotella
  Jyvät erotellaan akanoista.

Definition of fractionate

• To separate into its individual constituents by exploiting differences in some chemical or physical property, such as boiling point, particle size, solubility etc
• To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption

Examples

• Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.

Related words

• fractionation
• fractionated
• fractionator
• fractionating column
• hydraulic fractionation