Synthetic things are composed of multiple parts, often with the implication that they are artificial. In particular, 'synthetic' may refer to:

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* Synthetic chemical or compound, produced by the process of

chemical synthesis As a topic of chemistry, chemical synthesis (or combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products. This occurs by physical and chemical manipulations usually involving one or more reactions. In moder ...

* Synthetic organic compounds synthetic chemical compounds based on carbon (organic compounds). *

Synthetic peptide In organic chemistry, peptide synthesis is the production of peptides, compounds where multiple amino acids are linked via amide bonds, also known as peptide bonds. Peptides are chemically synthesized by the condensation reaction of the carboxyl ...

Synthetic biology Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature. It is a branch of science that encompasses a broad ran ...

Synthetic element A synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; ...

s, chemical elements that are not naturally found on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments

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Synthetic fuel Synthetic fuel or synfuel is a liquid fuel, or sometimes gaseous fuel, obtained from syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in which the syngas was derived from gasification of solid feedstocks such as coal or biomass or by refo ...

* Synthetic oil * Synthetic marijuana *

Synthetic diamond Lab-grown diamond (LGD; also called laboratory-grown, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond) is diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed ...

* Synthetic fibers, cloth or other material made from other substances than natural (animal, plant) materials

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Synthetic position In finance, a synthetic position is a way to create the payoff of a financial instrument using other financial instruments. A synthetic position can be created by buying or selling the underlying financial instruments and/or Derivative (finance) ...

, a concept in finance * Synthetic-aperture radar, a type or

radar Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (''ranging''), angle, and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, w ...

Analytic–synthetic distinction The analytic–synthetic distinction is a semantic distinction, used primarily in philosophy to distinguish between propositions (in particular, statements that are affirmative subject–predicate judgments) that are of two types: analytic propos ...

, in philosophy *

Synthetic language A synthetic language uses inflection or agglutination to express Syntax, syntactic relationships within a sentence. Inflection is the addition of morphemes to a root word that assigns grammatical property to that word, while agglutination is the ...

in linguistics, inflected or agglutinative languages * Synthetic intelligence a term emphasizing that true intelligence expressed by computing machines is not an imitation or "artificial." * Synthetic or

constructed language A constructed language (sometimes called a conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a work of fiction ...

, such as Esperanto * Synthetic music, produced by a

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

, a machine to create artificial sound and music * Synthetic chord in music theory * Synthetic person or

legal personality Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or altogether the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person ( ...

, characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person * Synthetic data, are any data applicable to a given situation that are not obtained by direct measurement or from live system as described in synthetic data; terminology used in testing of software applications * Synthetic monitoring, (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation or scripted recordings of web transactions * Synthetic setae, emulate the anatomical processes found on various animals, including the feet of basilisk lizards and the toes of geckos

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