Crossword clues for fractional
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fractional \Frac"tion*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to a fraction. 2 divide; fragmentary; incomplete. 3 Very small; minute. 4 (context chemistry English) Relating to a process or product of fractional distillation. n. 1 (context grammar English) An expression of a fractional number. 2 Partial ownership of a property, such as real estate or a chartered airplane, such that each partial owner has use of the property for only a portion of the time. 3 (context chemistry English) Relating to a fraction in a material distillation or separation process.
WordNet
adj. constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety; "a fractional share of the vote"; "a partial dose" [ant: whole]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fractional".
By adding another fractional protein, lysin, the rats were made to thrive.
Sometimes it seems as if the body, relieved of its effete materials, renewed its youth after one of these quiet, expurgating, internal fractional cremations.
The obvious way to arrange for standardization is for the different banks offering fractional reserve monies to use the same commodity in the same units.
It is separated from potassium by fractional precipitation with platinic chloride.
The same field that rigidifies the amphistaff extends a fractional millimeter beyond the blade, giving it an edge no thicker than an atomic diameter.
In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions.
That, recoiling from oblivion, we can recreate in a fractional moment whole years gone past, years yet to come -- striving to lengthen our existence, stretching out our apperception beyond the phantom boundaries, overdrawing upon a Barmecide deposit of minutes, staking fresh claims upon a mirage?
Nor could that block be open for more than the barest fractional millimicrosecond before or after the passage of the bolt.
Intervals between notes can be described as vectors and as certain fractional ratios between their frequencies.
The delay, in the meantime, would not be dangerous with the EDS decelerating at fractional gravity.
She was frowning, as if she had noticed the flaw in the composition, but it was a small frown, a fractional chiselling of lines between her brows.
I climbed two stories quickly, chimneying between a disused fractional distillation stack and a cooling tower.
There was not another of the conveyers in sight, but electronic and mechanical lag in the individual controls and even the distance-difference between them, and the central radio control would have prevented them from going into transposition at the same fractional microsecond.
The treatment of the minerals and the fractional crystallizations are still performed in the same way, as I did it in my laboratory, even if the material means are increased.
The working is greatly simplified by a process of elimination, based on such considerations as that certain multiplications produce a repetition of figures, and that the whole number cannot be from 12 to 23 inclusive, since in every such case sufficiently small denominators are not available for forming the fractional part.