synthetic
- adjective
- /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
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- The field of synthetic biology combines engineering principles with biological research to create new life forms.
- a synthetic approach
Kant is introducing something that he thinks is incredibly important, the synthetic priori.
- Kant is introducing something that he thinks is incredibly important, the synthetic priori.
- So regular shorting, naked shorting, synthetic shorting is options and then you have swaps.
- So this still doesn't sort of get us anywhere closer to how we can start building a synthetic brain.
- They call it synthetic aperture radar Doppler tomography, which is quite a mouthful.
Examples
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It's more your synthetic knowledge and your way of bringing things together.
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Hammond explains that the imagination has an interpretative function in cognition that is dynamic and synthetic, selecting and organizing experience into a meaningful whole.
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Sort of a complete systematic, synthetic view.
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So this was sort of the launch of some of the interest around the field of synthetic biology.
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There are undoubtedly lots of societal challenges that synthetic biology could address.
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So these guys, they made a synthetic biology circuit which can detect the RNA from Zika.
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However, the synthetic models are often oversimplified, and the accuracy entirely depends on the designing methodology.
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The result of this synthetic approach is a theology that is both ecclesiologically sophisticated and spiritually rich
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Lastly, it renders possible the coordination of disparate fields of speculation in a more synthetic and comprehensive viewpoint.
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Taking a broad, synthetic view, Armelagos, Barnes, and Lin (1998) detail three epidemiological revolutions in human history.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
A way of combining separate parts to make a whole
Antonyms
Compounds
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A man-made stretchy material made with chemicals like natural rubber
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A man-made drug like morphine that helps people addicted to heroin avoid withdrawal symptoms
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People make it in a lab or factory rather than find it in nature
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A later painting style with simple shapes, bright colors, and glued paper pieces
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A language that shows grammar by adding endings or small parts to words
How Integrative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Synthetic meaning 'involving synthesis' comes from synthesis, or 'put together', so a synthetic approach brings separate parts or ideas together to make one whole.