Synthesis

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Contents 1 Science and technology 1.1 Chemistry and biochemistry 1.2 Evolutionary and cell biology 1.3 Electronics 1.4 Speech and sound creation 2 Humanities 3 Media 4 See also

In general, the noun synthesis (from the ancient Greek σύνθεσις σύν "with" and θέσις "placing") refers to the combining of two or more entities to form something new. The corresponding verb, to synthesise (or synthesize), means to make or form a synthesis.

Synthesis or synthesise may also refer to:

[edit] Science and technology

[edit] 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*
    • Peptide synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of peptides using amino acids
      • Protein biosynthesis, the multi-step biochemical synthesis of proteins (long peptides)
  • DNA synthesis (disambiguation), several biochemical processes for making DNA
    • DNA replication, DNA biosynthesis in vivo
  • RNA synthesis, the synthesis of RNA from nucleic acids, using another nucleic acid chain as a template
  • ATP synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of ATP

[edit] Evolutionary and cell biology

• Modern evolutionary synthesis, a union of ideas from several biological specialties which forms a logical account of evolution
• S phase, short for synthesis phase, a period in the cell cycle

[edit] Electronics

• the process of converting a higher-level form of a design into a lower-level implementation
  • Logic synthesis
  • High-level synthesis

[edit] Speech and sound creation

• Sound synthesis, various methods of sound generation in audio electronics
  • Subtractive synthesis
  • Frequency modulation synthesis
• 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

[edit] Media

• Synthesis (magazine), a web site and magazine covering popular culture
• Synthesis (journal), a journal of chemical synthesis.

[edit] See also

• Analysis, the converse of synthesis
• Synthesizer (disambiguation)
• Synthetic (disambiguation)
• Creation (disambiguation)
• Formation (disambiguation)
• Production
• Derivation

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