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The combination of ideas into a complex whole
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synthesis
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The synthesis ( Greek for something "put together"), probably synonymous with cenatoria , "dinner clothes" (from Latin cena , "dinner"), was a garment or outfit worn in ancient Rome for dining or special occasions such as the Saturnalia . It seems to have ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synthesis \Syn"the*sis\, n.; pl. Syntheses . [L., a mixture, properly, a putting together, Gr. ?, fr. ? to place or put together; sy`n with + ? to place. See Thesis .] Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE increased ▪ This may represent either increased synthesis of the type 1 chain precursor or activation of the Le and Se genes. ▪ In theory the increased prostaglandin synthesis seen with Helicobacter pylori might ...
Usage examples of synthesis.
You develop a thesis, you contradict it with an anthesis and then you resolve the contradiction with a synthesis.
Thus, so long as the child is able to apperceive only the three sides and three angles of a triangle, his idea of triangle includes a synthesis of these.
When later, through the building up of his geometric knowledge, he is able to apperceive that the interior angles equal two right angles, his knowledge of a triangle expands through the synthesis of this with the former knowledge.
Even in the fascinating novels of Musil and Broch which provide an example of incomparable syntheses in the production of the first half of the twentieth century, the architectonic balance is not always successfully maintained.
Synthesis when the angry bleat of a rumbling mosso frightened him half out of his wits.
The reports are horribly confused and contradictory but have responded to multivariate synthesis.
Second Synthesis group wanted biology to take, the path Penn Brown so vehemently opposed.
These channels make the membrane permeable to ions or molecules, which can then enter the cell and act as signals for the initiation of the biochemical cascades which ultimately lead, in ways that I shall describe in the next chapter, to the synthesis of new synaptic membrane components and hence to synaptic remodeling.
I knew him fairly well ten years ago, when he was working on porphyrin syntheses.
China in the coming decades, but the reality beneath any such formal predominance will be the absorption of Russia beyond the range of the European pull by the synthesis of Eastern Asia.
Irnerius had done for Roman law producing a convenient synthesis appropriate for academic consumption.
One could rightly say that FDR resolved the contradictions of american progressivism by forging a synthesis of the American imperialist vocation and reformist capitalism, represented by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
But the Synthesis was not religion, Quath argued to herself, it was a philosophical discovery.
The isotopes arc pumped up through lead-shielded pipes to a radiochemistry laboratory in which complex syntheses are done in automated equipment designed to produce pure labelled organic chemicals from the fast-decaying isotopes within a few moments of arrival.
But because the brain is such a finely equilibrated and dynamic system, with great capacities for self-adjustment and control, the effect of disrupting its biochemistry by flooding it, via a pill, with some drug which affects protein synthesis, or particular neurotransmitters or neuromodulators, is more likely to be the equivalent of trying to retune a radio or reprogram a computer by jamming a screwdriver into its circuit boards.