synthesis
pronunciation
How to pronounce synthesis in British English:
UK [ˈsɪnθəsɪs]
How to pronounce synthesis in American English:
US [ˈsɪnθəsɪs]
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- Noun:
- the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)
- the combination of ideas into a complex whole
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Word Origin
- synthesis (n.)
- 1610s, "deductive reasoning," from Latin synthesis "collection, set, suit of clothes, composition (of a medication)," from Greek synthesis "composition, a putting together," from syntithenai "put together, combine," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + tithenai "put, place" (see theme). From 1733 as "a combination of parts into a whole." Earlier borrowed in Middle English as sintecis (mid-15c.). Plural syntheses.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The other development is faster and cheaper dna synthesis .
- 2. You might call the new synthesis brackish macroeconomics .
- 3. Education being the synthesis of wisdom and knowledge , it 's the means to strive for a more perfect , more aware more noble and more just society .
- 4. The synthesis now becomes a new thesis , for which an antithesis will sooner or later become apparent , and once more generate yet another synthesis , and so the process continues .
- 5. It will allow users to investigate rna synthesis .