relating to or consisting of fractions; broken into parts or divided into fragments.
From fraction + -ary (suffix meaning 'relating to'). This is an older or more technical variant of fractional, maintaining the Latin root fractus meaning broken or divided.
Fractionary is increasingly rare in modern English, replaced by fractional, but it survives in specialized chemistry and mathematics texts—a word slowly losing ground as language evolves toward simpler forms.
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