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Definition the combination of components into a complex whole

Specialized Definitions of synthesis:
  • chemistry:  producing a chemical compound from simpler substances
  • philosophy:  the result of an effort to reconcile thesis and antithesis
  • music (in the form synthesizer):  an electronic keyboard instrument used to create music or other sounds
  • The test will measure both the ability to remember facts and the ability to synthesize ideas.
(editor's note:  The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
  • His operas are the synthesis of music and drama in perfect harmony.
  • ... [lofty spirituality] is a synthesis of all qualities attributed to the "merely moral" man, after they have been acquired singly through long training and practice...
    Friedrich Nietzsche  --  Beyond Good and Evil
  • Synthetic fabrics are made through chemical synthesis.
  • Before the synthesis of a protein begins, the corresponding RNA molecule is produced by RNA transcription.
  • We could synthesize every morsel of food, if we wanted to.
    Aldous Huxley  --  Brave New World
  • synthesize = create artificially
    (editor's note:  The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
  • All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods.
    George Orwell  --  1984
  • synthesize = create (by combining components)
    (editor's note:  The suffix "-ive" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.)
  • I didn't recognize the song, but I recognized David Gilmour's voice, and the ebb and flow of Pink Floyd's synthesizers.
    Alexandra Bracken  --  The Darkest Minds

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