n. The act of breaking, or the state of being broken, especially by violence; a breaking or fracture.n. Specifically (ecclesiastical), the liturgical act of breaking or dividing the eucharistic bread, or host.n. A fragment; a separated portion; a disconnected part.n. In mathematics: In arithmetic, a part, or a number of aliquot parts, of unity.n. In algebra, a ration of algebraic quantities analogous to the arithmetical vulgar fraction, and similarly expressed.n. In mathematics: In geometry, any multiple of any submultiple of a magnitude.n. In chem., one of the parts into which a substance is separated in the process of fractional distillation. See fractionation.Same as fractionate.