fractionalize

[ frak-shuh-nl-ahyz ]

verb (used with or without object)

, frac·tion·al·ized, frac·tion·al·iz·ing.

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

Other Words From

• fraction·al·i·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fractionalize¹

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

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

If you choose to fractionalize an NFT into a billion fungible tokens — you could actually increase it so that there are more fractionalized tokens than there are Bitcoin tokens — that is still not allowed, even though you might own one trillionth of an NFT.

From The Verge

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

What we’re trying to promote is the comeback of the values that created this country, which is the understanding that we understand a common faith –within, by the way, a hostile world – and we have to ask ourselves do we ant to fractionalize our world even more, or do we want to unite, not only in days of war but otherwise. 

From Time