Synthesis or synthesize may refer to:

Science

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 reaction, 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, several biochemical processes for making DNA ***DNA replication, DNA biosynthesis ''in vivo'' ***Synthesis (cell cycle) **Transcription (genetics), RNA synthesis, the synthesis of RNA from nucleic acids, using another nucleic acid chain as a template **ATP synthase, ATP synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of ATP

Physics

*Nucleosynthesis, the process of creating new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons *Kinematic synthesis, part of the process of designing a machine to achieve its objective

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 *Frequency synthesizer, an electronic system for generating any of a range of frequencies

Speech and sound creation

*Synthesizer, 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

Humanities

*In philosophy, the end result of a dialectic, as in thesis, antithesis, synthesis *A cognitive skill, in Benjamin Bloom's Bloom's taxonomy, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives *In philosophy and science, a higher a priori and a posteriori, a priori process than analysis *in linguistics, a scale denoting the average ratio of morphemes to words; see synthetic language

Other uses

*Synthesis anarchism, a form of anarchist organization which tries to join anarchists of different tendencies *Synthesis (clothing), a garment or outfit worn in ancient Rome for dining or special occasions *Synthesis (Evanescence album), ''Synthesis'' (Evanescence album), 2017 *Synthesis (The Cryan' Shames album), ''Synthesis'' (The Cryan' Shames album), 1968 *Synthesis (journal), ''Synthesis'' (journal), a journal of chemical synthesis *Program synthesis, a task in computer science to automatically generate programs from a formal specification