division vs fractionation

fractionation vs division

division and fractionation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
division	Yes	No	No	No
fractionation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fractionation is a hyponym of division; that is, fractionation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than division:

division: the act or process of dividing
fractionation: separation into portions

Other hyponyms of division include parcellation, cleavage, bisection, quartering, schism, split, cut, cutting, atomisation, atomization, fragmentation, branching, fork, forking, ramification, dichotomisation, dichotomization, quantisation, quantization, syllabication, syllabification, hyphenation, word division, cut, cutting.

division (noun)	fractionation (noun)
the act or process of dividing	separation into portions
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed	a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
discord that splits a group
an army unit large enough to sustain combat
a group of ships of similar type
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
an administrative unit in government or business
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
a league ranked by quality

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