Synthesis
In general, the noun synthesis (from the ancient Greek σύνθεσις, σύν "with" and θέσις "placing") refers to a combination of two or more entities that together form something new; alternately, it refers to the creating of something by artificial means. The corresponding verb, to synthesize (or synthesise), means to make or form a synthesis.
Synthesis or synthesize may also refer to:
Science
Chemistry and biochemistry
- Chemical synthesis, the execution of chemical reactions to form a more complex molecule from chemical precursors
- Organic synthesis, the chemical synthesis of organic compounds
- Total synthesis, the complete organic synthesis of complex organic compounds, usually without the aid of biological processes
- Convergent synthesis or linear synthesis, a strategy to improve the efficiency of multi-step chemical syntheses
- Dehydration synthesis, a chemical synthesis resulting in the loss of a water molecule
- Paal–Knorr synthesis, a chemical reaction named after Carl Paal and Ludwig Knorr
- Biosynthesis, the creation of an organic compound in a living organism, usually aided by enzymes
- Photosynthesis, a biochemical reaction using a carbon molecule to produce an organic molecule, using sunlight as a catalyst
- Chemosynthesis, the synthesis of biological compounds into organic waste, using methane or an oxidized molecule as a catalyst
- Amino acid synthesis, the synthesis of an amino acid from its constituents*
- DNA synthesis (disambiguation), several biochemical processes for making DNA
- RNA synthesis, the synthesis of RNA from nucleic acids, using another nucleic acid chain as a template
- ATP synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of ATP
Electronics
- Logic synthesis The process of converting a higher-level form of a design into a lower-level implementation
- High-level synthesis, an automated design process that interprets an algorithmic description of a desired behavior and creates hardware that implements that behavior
Speech and sound creation
- Sound synthesis, various methods of sound generation in audio electronics
- wave field synthesis, a spatial audio rendering technique, characterized by creation of virtual acoustic environments
- Subtractive synthesis, a method of creating a sound by removing harmonics, characterised by the application of an audio filter to an audio signal
- 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
- Speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech
Humanities
Politics
- Synthesis anarchism is a form of anarchist organization which tries to join anarchists of different tendencies.
Media
See also