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v. To divide or separate into parts; break up: "In the post-Watergate era, power has been fractionated on Capitol Hill” ( Evan Thomas).

v. To separate (a chemical compound) into components, as by distillation or crystallization.

v. To separate (a mixture) into its individual constituents by exploiting differences in some chemical or physical property, such as boiling point, particle size, solubility etc.

v. To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

To subject to or obtain by the process of fractionation.

v. separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents

v. obtain by a fractional process

"You could sort of say that this is a very energized version of the conservative side of the Republican Party, or you can see it that this could be something that could just fractionate the Republican Party, tear it into fiscal Republicans and social Republicans, and whatever there is left of old mainline Republicans."

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