Synthetic may refer to:
Science
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Synthetic biology
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on living systems and organisms. It applies engineering principles to develop new biological parts, devices, and systems or to redesign existing systems found in nat ...
* Synthetic chemical or compound, produced by the process of
chemical synthesis
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Synthetic element
A synthetic element is a known chemical element that does not occur naturally on Earth: it has been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, it i ...
s, chemical elements that are not naturally found on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments
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Synthetic organic compounds synthetic chemical compounds based on carbon (organic compounds).
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Synthetic peptide
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Synthetic population
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Synthetic population (biology)
Industry
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Synthetic fuel
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Synthetic oil
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Synthetic marijuana
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Synthetic diamond
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Synthetic fibers, cloth or other material made from other substances than natural (animal, plant) materials
Other
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Synthetic position, a concept in finance
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Synthetic-aperture radar, a type or
radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track ...
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Analytic–synthetic distinction, in philosophy
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Synthetic language
A synthetic language is a language that is characterized by denoting syntactic relationships between words via inflection or agglutination. Synthetic languages are statistically characterized by a higher morpheme-to-word ratio relative to an ...
in linguistics, inflected or agglutinative languages
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Synthetic intelligence a term emphasizing that true intelligence expressed by computing machines is not an imitation or "artificial."
* Synthetic or
constructed language, such as Esperanto
* Synthetic music, produced by a
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...
, a machine to create artificial sound and music
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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 the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sen ...
, characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person
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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
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Synthetic monitoring, (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation or scripted recordings of web transactions
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Synthetic setae, emulate the anatomical processes found on various animals, including the feet of basilisk lizards and the toes of geckos
* "Synthetic", a song by Spineshank from ''
The Height of Callousness'', 2000
See also
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Artificial (disambiguation)
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Man-made (disambiguation)
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Pharmaceutical drug
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Plastic
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic polymers, synthetic or Semisynthesis, semisynthetic materials composed primarily of Polymer, polymers. Their defining characteristic, Plasticity (physics), plasticity, allows them to be Injection moulding ...
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Synthetic phonics
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Synthetic rubber
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