ALL meanings of synthesis
syn·the·sis
S s - noun plural synthesis the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements. 1
- noun plural synthesis a complex whole formed by combining. 1
- noun plural synthesis Chemistry. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds. 1
- noun plural synthesis Philosophy. the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis and antithesis. 1
- noun plural synthesis Biology. modern synthesis, a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation. 1
- noun plural synthesis Psychology, Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality. 1
- noun synthesis an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis) 1
- noun synthesis act of combining 1
- noun synthesis sth combined, mix: of ideas, etc. 1
- countable noun synthesis A synthesis of different ideas or styles is a mixture or combination of these ideas or styles. 0
- variable noun synthesis The synthesis of a substance is the production of it by means of chemical or biological reactions. 0
- noun synthesis the process of combining objects or ideas into a complex whole 0
- noun synthesis the combination or whole produced by such a process 0
- noun synthesis the process of producing a compound by a chemical reaction or series of reactions, usually from simpler or commonly available starting materials 0
- noun synthesis the use of inflections rather than word order and function words to express the syntactic relations in a language 0
- noun synthesis synthetic reasoning 0
- noun synthesis (in the writings of Kant) the unification of one concept with another not contained in it 0
- noun synthesis the final stage in the Hegelian dialectic, that resolves the contradiction between thesis and antithesis 0
- noun synthesis the putting together of parts or elements so as to form a whole 0
- noun synthesis a whole made up of parts or elements put together 0
- noun synthesis the formation of a complex compound by the combining of two or more simpler compounds, elements, or radicals 0
- noun synthesis in Hegelian philosophy, the unified whole in which opposites (thesis and antithesis) are reconciled 0
- noun synthesis The synthesis of a substance, for example a compound, is the production of it by means of chemical or biological reactions. 0