Synthesis

Synthesis or synthesize may refer to:

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 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)
 * RNA synthesis, the synthesis of RNA from nucleic acids, using another nucleic acid chain as a template
 * 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

 * 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 Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
 * In philosophy and science, a higher 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, a 1974 Indian short animated film by A. R. Sen and B. R. Dohling, winner of the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film
 * Synthesis (Evanescence album), 2017
 * Synthesis (The Cryan' Shames album), 1968
 * Synthesis (journal), a journal of chemical synthesis
 * Program synthesis, a task in computer science to automatically generate programs from a formal specification