fractionator
noun
fractionator is a noun meaning “A piece of chemical engineering or laboratory apparatus that is used to separate the components of a mixture by fractionation, especially by…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-C-T-I-O-N-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fractionator is fractionators.
What does fractionator mean?
noun
- 1
A piece of chemical engineering or laboratory apparatus that is used to separate the components of a mixture by fractionation, especially by fractional distillation or by chromatography.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fractionator
- fractionators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fractionator?
Fractionator appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fractionator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense apparatus used to separate the components of a mixture by fractionation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fracionador |
| Spanish | fraccionador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fractionator come from?
From fractionate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).