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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:

[edit] Science

[edit] Chemistry and biochemistry

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
  • in social sciences, identity synthesis, is when you are content and comfortable with who you are and don't feel the need to define yourself against anybody else. - This is the final stage of development for your own cultural awareness. (Synthesis) comes after (Pride).

[edit] Politics

  • Synthesis anarchism is a form of anarchist organization which tries to join anarchists of different tendencies.

[edit] Media

[edit] See also

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