Look up: synthesis

1. synthesis
   (programming, specification) The process of deriving (efficient) programs from (clear) specifications. See also program transformation. (1996-08-23)
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2. synthesis
   The process whereby separate elements are combined to form a new complex product, synthetic chemical compound or material.
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3. Synthesis
   The translation of input requirements (including performance, function, and interface) into possible solutions (resources and techniques) satisfying those inputs. Defines a physical architecture of people, product and process solutions for logical groupings of requirements (performance, functions, and interface) and their designs for those solutions.
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4. synthesis
   [n] - the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) 2. [n] - the combination of ideas into a complex whole
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5. Synthesis
   ChemistryThe construction of a compound by the union of elements or simple compounds.
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6. synthesis
   In literary plots, the resolving and satisfying of an often complicated pattern of characters and relationships. Synthesis often involves a balancing of the plot, where characters come together and...
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7. synthesis
   synthesize; synthetic reaction. Compare with decomposition. Formation of a complex product from simpler reactants. For example, water can be synthesized from oxygen and hydrogen gas: H₂(g) + ½O₂(g) H₂O().
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8. Synthesis
   The preparation of a substance by chemical means as opposed to its extraction from a natural source.
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9. Synthesis
   The combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole e.g. to make a protein - 'protein synthesis.'
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10. Synthesis
    Synthesis: Putting together different entities to make a whole which is new and different. In biochemistry, synthesis refers specifically to the process of building compounds from more elementary substances by means of one or more chemical reactions. For example, the adipocyte is a cell that is specialized in the synthesis and storage of fat.
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11. synthesis
    the building up of elements and simple compounds into complicated tissue material by the micro-organisms Category: Chemistry
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12. Synthesis
    Syn'the·sis noun ; plural Syntheses . [ Latin , a mixture, properly, a putting together, Greek ..., from ... to place or put together; sy`n with + ... to place. See Thesis .] 1. Composition, or the putting of two...
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13. synthesis
    1. <biochemistry, chemistry> The artificial building up of a chemical compound, by the union of its elements or from other suitable starting materials. ... 2. <psychiatry> The integration of the various elements of the personality, the opposite of analysis. ... Origin: Gr. = a putting together, composition ... (19 Jan 1998) ...
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14. synthesis
    synthetic thinking noun the combination of ideas into a complex whole
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15. synthesis
    noun the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)
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16. synthesis
    (sin´thә-sis) the creation of an integrated whole by the combining of simpler parts or entities. the formation of a chemical compound by the union of its elements or from other suitable components. in psychiatry, the integration of the various elements of the personality. adj., synthet´ic., a...
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17. Synthesis
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contras...
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18. synthesis
    (from the article `mathematics`) ...used to solve the equivalent problem derived in the analysis, and, from the solution obtained, the original problem was then solved. In contrast ... ...Other theorists (particularly Gestaltists) stress the view that perceptual organization is physiologically inborn, being inherent in innate ... [2 ...
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19. synthesis
    in philosophy, the combination of parts, or elements, in order to form a more complete view or system. The coherent whole that results is considered ... [4 related articles]
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20. synthesis
    (Gr. 'a putting together, composition') 1. the artificial building up of a chemical compound, by the union of its elements or from other suitable starting materials. 2. in psychiatry, the integration of the various elements of the personality; the opposite of analysis.
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21. synthesis
    synthesis (s), syntheses (pl) 1. The combination of ideas into a complex whole. 2. The process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds). 3. Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect). 4. A new unified whole resulting from the combination of different ideas, influences, ...
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22. synthesis
    integration of two opposing representations into one new repre¬sentation, with a view towards constructing a new level of the object's real¬ity. Philosophy as Critique employs synthesis more than analysis. On the operation of synthesis in the first Critique, see imagination. (Cf. analysis.)
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23. Synthesis
    In logic, the general method of deduction or deductive reasoning, which proceeds from the simple to the complex, from the general to the particular, from the necessary to the contingent, from a principle to its application, from a general law to individual cases from cause to effect, from an anteced...
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24. Synthesis
    In chemistry, synthesis is the construction of a compound by the union of elements or simple compounds.
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25. synthesis
    Type: Term Pronunciation: sin′thĕ-sis, -sēz Definitions: 1. A building up, putting together, composition. 2. In chemistry, the formation of compounds by the union of simpler compounds or elements. 3. Stage in the cell cycle in which DNA is synthesized as a preliminary to cell division.
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