fractionalize

American  

[frak-shuh-nl-ahyz] / ˈfræk ʃə nlˌaɪz /

especially British, fractionalise

verb (used with or without object)

fractionalized, fractionalizing

1. to divide or splinter into fractions, sections, factions, etc.

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Other Word Forms

• fractionalization noun

Etymology

Origin of fractionalize

First recorded in 1930–35; fractional + -ize

Example Sentences

The group prepared the material in a specific configuration, which theorists predicted would give the material an inherent magnetic field, enough to encourage electrons to fractionalize without any external magnetic control.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

If you want “to seed distrust and fear” and “shake and fractionalize a whole profession,” he says, then proposing sweeping changes without fully defining them “is the best way to behave.”

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

The thing that looks like a DAO and a really cool idea to go buy something — does it start to run afoul of SEC rules if it then starts to fractionalize interest?

From The Verge • Feb. 22, 2022