Definitions for syntheses
syntheses
syn·the·sis
Spelling: [sin-thuh-sis]
IPA: /ˈsɪn θə sɪs/
Syntheses is a 9 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 155 anagrams from letters in syntheses (eehnsssty).
Definitions for syntheses
noun
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the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
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a complex whole formed by combining.
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Chemistry. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds.
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Philosophy. the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis and antithesis.
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Biology. modern synthesis, a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
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Psychology, Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality.
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an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis)
Origin of syntheses
1580-90; Latin Greek sýnthesis, equivalent to syn- syn- + the- (stem of tithénai to put, place) + -sis -sis
Examples for syntheses
These syntheses afford another instance of the singular action of aluminum chloride in attacking the benzene nucleus.
It must not be supposed that no syntheses of alkaloids have been effected as yet.
These latter are syntheses of many ideas, and centuries of human thought have laboured on their gigantic figures.
The groundwork of theoretical knowledge advances through an uninterrupted series of antitheses and syntheses.
The agencies operative in the production of volatile acids and syntheses of esters are as yet undefined.
Its syntheses were based on elements already in combination.
We now proceed to consider the properties, syntheses, decompositions and constitution of the benzene complex.
He further recognises that all arithmetical processes are syntheses according to concepts.
And what are the hypotheses which science frames in order to explain phenomena but syntheses of factors framed in consciousness?
In all these syntheses the fundamental change is the same, viz.