Synthesis Explained
Synthesis or synthesize may 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
- 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, 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
Physics
- Nucleosynthesis, the process of creating new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons
- Kinematic synthesis, part of the process of designing a machine to achieve its objective
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
- Frequency synthesizer, an electronic system for generating any of a range of frequencies
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
- In philosophy, the end result of a dialectic, as in thesis, antithesis, synthesis
- A cognitive skill, in Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
- In philosophy and science, a higher a priori process than analysis
- in linguistics, a scale denoting the average ratio of morphemes to words; see synthetic language
Other uses
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