Synthesis - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈsɪnθəsɪs|  American pronunciation of the word synthesis
Brit.  |ˈsɪnθɪsɪs|  British pronunciation of the word synthesis

noun

- the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)
- the combination of ideas into a complex whole
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) (syn: deduction)

Extra examples

...a philosophy that is a kind of synthesis of several schools of Western and Eastern thought...

His speech was a synthesis of ideas put forward by various individuals.

Word forms

noun
singular: synthesis
plural: syntheses
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