Synthetic

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

Science

 * Synthetic biology
 * Synthetic chemical or compound, produced by the process of chemical synthesis
 * Synthetic elements, chemical elements that are not naturally found on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments
 * Synthetic organic compounds synthetic chemical compounds based on carbon (organic compounds).
 * Synthetic peptide
 * Synthetic population
 * Synthetic population (biology)

Industry

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

Other

 * Synthetic position, a concept in finance
 * Synthetic-aperture radar, a type or radar
 * Analytic–synthetic distinction, in philosophy
 * Synthetic language 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, such as Esperanto
 * Synthetic music, produced by a synthesizer, a machine to create artificial sound and music
 * Synthetic chord in music theory
 * Synthetic person or legal personality, 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
 * "Synthetic", a song by Spineshank from The Height of Callousness, 2000