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adjective

Fractional adj.

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population.

Fractional crystallization (Chem.), a process of gradual and approximate purification and separation, by means of repeated solution and crystallization therefrom.

Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less value than the monetary unit.

Fractional distillation (Chem.), a process of distillation so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boiling points, can be separated into its constituents.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fractional" Quotes from Famous Books

... soundness of judgment, resulting from the soundness of, and equilibrium among, the upper powers of reason and sensibility. The moral side is at least the half of it: Napoleon's moral endowment was but fractional. Good sense, it may be added, lies solidly at the basis of all good work, except such as is purely professional or technical, or in its action one-sided; and even in such its presence must be felt. In whatever reaches general human interests, whether as practical act or ...

— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert

... party might have served as an excellent illustration of the history of many principalities and nations. Having suffered a division and then a subdivision and finally a breaking up into fractional groups, it became as a weakened and shattered government, ...

— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes

... which we might take up, but the study would be as unprofitable as depressing. We have, I think, covered the essential points. If you understand why and how profits, rent, and interest operated to limit the consuming power of most of the community to a fractional part of its productive power, thereby in turn correspondingly crippling the latter, you have the open secret of the poverty of the world before the Revolution, and of the impossibility of any important or lasting improvement from any source whatever in the economic circumstances ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... up in him. Elena clubbed her gun butt and struck the man next to her behind the ear. In the fractional second before the others could understand ...

— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson

... produced by fractional distillation of the Silesian zinc ores, which contain at most 0.3 per cent cadmium. In the United States there are large potential sources in the zinc ores of the Mississippi valley, and considerable cadmium ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

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