Synthesis or synthesize may refer to:
Science
Chemistry and biochemistry
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Chemical synthesis, the execution of chemical reactions to form a more complex molecule from chemical precursors
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Organic synthesis, the chemical synthesis of organic compounds
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Total synthesis, the complete organic synthesis of complex organic compounds, usually without the aid of biological processes
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Convergent synthesis or linear synthesis, a strategy to improve the efficiency of multi-step chemical syntheses
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Dehydration synthesis, a chemical synthesis resulting in the loss of a water molecule
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Biosynthesis, the creation of an organic compound in a living organism, usually aided by enzymes
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Photosynthesis, a biochemical reaction using a carbon molecule to produce an organic molecule, using sunlight as a catalyst
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Chemosynthesis, the synthesis of biological compounds into organic waste, using methane or an oxidized molecule as a catalyst
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Amino acid synthesis, the synthesis of an amino acid from its constituents
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Peptide synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of peptides using amino acids
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Protein biosynthesis, the multi-step biochemical synthesis of proteins (long peptides)
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DNA synthesis, several biochemical processes for making DNA
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RNA synthesis, the synthesis of RNA from nucleic acids, using another nucleic acid chain as a template
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ATP synthase, the biochemical synthesis of ATP
Physics
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Nucleosynthesis, the process of creating new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons
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Kinematic synthesis, part of the process of designing a machine to achieve its objective
Electronics
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Logic synthesis, the process of converting a higher-level form of a design into a lower-level implementation
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High-level synthesis, an automated design process that interprets an algorithmic description of a desired behavior and creates hardware that implements that behavior
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Frequency synthesizer, an electronic system for generating any of a range of frequencies
Speech and sound creation
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Synthesizer, various methods of sound generation in audio electronics
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Wave field synthesis, a spatial audio rendering technique, characterized by creation of virtual acoustic environments
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Subtractive synthesis, a method of creating a sound by removing harmonics, characterised by the application of an audio filter to an audio signal
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Frequency modulation synthesis, a form of audio synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform is changed by frequency modulating it with a modulating frequency that is also in the audio range
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Speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech
Humanities
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In philosophy, the end result of a dialectic, as in thesis, antithesis, synthesis
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A cognitive skill, in Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
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In philosophy and science, a higher a priori process than analysis
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in linguistics, a scale denoting the average ratio of morphemes to words; see synthetic language
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In law, the process of condensing and combining large quantities of information
Music
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Synthesis (The Cryan' Shames album), 1968
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Synthesis (Reggie Workman album), 1986
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Synthesis (Glaiza de Castro album), 2015
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Synthesis (Evanescence album), 2017
Other uses
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Synthesis anarchism, a form of anarchist organization which tries to join anarchists of different tendencies
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Synthesis (clothing), a garment or outfit worn in ancient Rome for dining or special occasions
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Synthesis, a 1974 Indian short animated film by A. R. Sen and B. R. Dohling, winner of the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film
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Synthesis (journal), a journal of chemical synthesis
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Program synthesis, a task in computer science to automatically generate programs from a formal specification
See also
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Analysis, the converse of synthesis
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Carlson Curve
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Synthesizer (disambiguation)
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Synthetic (disambiguation)
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Creation (disambiguation)
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Formation (disambiguation)
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Production (disambiguation)
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Derivation (disambiguation)