1. Noun
Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
2. Noun
The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis
3. Noun
The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis.
4. Noun
The production of complex compounds from simpler ones in biological processes
5. Noun
reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
6. Noun
the combination of ideas into a complex whole
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
7. Noun
the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)
Vocabulary classified under Chemistry
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