fractionalize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Etymology
Origin of fractionalize
First recorded in 1930–35; fractional + -ize
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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
Even illiquid assets—real estate, fine art, commodities—are being fractionalized and traded with unprecedented efficiency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
A global research team led by Rice University physicist Pengcheng Dai has verified the presence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in an unusual quantum spin liquid.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 17, 2025
Eight years later, the media ecosystem has become increasingly fractionalized.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
We get to have these fractionalized NFT projects.
From The Verge ● Feb. 22, 2022
Second, the smartphone industry becomes increasingly fractionalized with major players churning out devices that bundle together different product characteristics which cater to different market segments.
From Forbes ● Jan. 6, 2013
Private-market funds have also seen momentum: By fractionalizing feeder vehicles, managers can broaden their investor base.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
But the idea, according to Mikami, was to subvert survival-horror conventions by slowing the pace, fractionalizing access to weapon ammo and revisiting the land of ridiculously cramped confines.
From Time ● Sep. 23, 2014
For the networks, sports programming is a surefire audience getter in an era of fractionalizing viewership.
From Time Magazine Archive
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