synthesis

synthesis is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

   Synonyms: deduction

5. noun. the combination of ideas into a complex whole
6. noun. the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)

Synonyms

deduction

Common word forms

synthesiser

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