Crossword clues for syntheses
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.
(Chem.) 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.
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(Logic) 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.
Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other.
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of synthesis English)
WordNet
n. the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)
the combination of ideas into a complex whole [syn: synthetic thinking] [ant: analysis]
reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) [syn: deduction, deductive reasoning]
[also: syntheses (pl)]
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Usage examples of "syntheses".
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.
The great historico-philosophical concepts impaired at their foundations, the great syntheses based upon values inherited from the past, were turning into brontosaurs doomed to extinction.
Since Toynbee's attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.
Specialists from several disciplines have provided global syntheses of their subjects.
Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.
Majat were capable of analyses and syntheses of enormous range and sensitivity, capable of sampling and altering substances as naturally as humans flexed limbs, a partnership invaluable to Kontrin labs.
There were syntheses which verged on prophecy, cross-connections too full of subtle intervening data.