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Synthetic   /sɪnθˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Synthetic

adjective
1.
Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially.  Synonyms: man-made, semisynthetic.  "Synthetic leather"
2.
Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis.  Synonym: synthetical.
3.
Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words.
4.
Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts.  Synonym: synthetical.
5.
Artificial as if portrayed in a film.  Synonym: celluloid.
6.
Not genuine or natural.
noun
1.
A compound made artificially by chemical reactions.  Synonym: synthetic substance.



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"Synthetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... far that Rick wondered why he didn't conceal it with a beard. He seemed like a complete non-entity. In contrast to the white-haired man's style of dress, the nondescript man wore a rumpled black suit of synthetic fabric, a regular white shirt, and a tie that a color-blind old aunt might have given him ...
— The Flying Stingaree • Harold Leland Goodwin
... denial that he had been influenced by Comte. Yet there is a certain reminder of Comte in Spencer's monumental endeavour to systematise the whole mass of modern scientific knowledge, under the general title of 'A Synthetic Philosophy.' He would show the unity of the sciences and their common principles or, rather, the one great common principle which they all illustrate, the doctrine of evolution, as this had taken shape since ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore
... a plant that has grown from one seed; it is like a lake that has been fed by countless springs. It is a great pool of living water, mingled from many sources and tainted with much impurity. It is synthetic in its nature; it becomes simpler from ...
— God The Invisible King • Herbert George Wells
... extraordinary successes which have rewarded the efforts of scientific investigators. Everything now-a-days is expressed in terms of science and its formulae. Evolution is the keynote to the learning of the age. Thus Mr. Spencer's system of the Synthetic Philosophy is a bold and comprehensive attempt to take up the whole knowable, and express it anew in the language of development. It is emphatically, professedly, the philosophy of evolution, the rigid application of a purely scientific formula to everything capable of philosophical ...
— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan
... superstructure was to be finally edified. But the architect who placed each block in its proper niche, who planned and designed the whole elevation, who planted the building firmly on the rock and poised the coping-stone on the topmost pinnacle, was the author of the 'System of Synthetic Philosophy,' and none other. It is a strange proof of how little people know about their own ideas, that among the thousands who talk glibly every day of evolution, not ten per cent. are probably aware that both word and conception are alike due to the commanding ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen


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