synthetic meaning
EN[sɪnˈθetɪk]WSynthetic
- Synthesis, the combination of two or more parts, whether by design or by natural processes. Furthermore, it may imply being prepared or made artificially, in contrast to naturally.
- NounPLsyntheticsPREsyn-SUF-etic
- A synthetic compound.
- Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.
- A synthetic compound.
- AdjectiveCOMmore syntheticSUPmost synthetic
- Of, or relating to synthesis.
- (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- Artificial, not genuine.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
- Of, or relating to synthesis.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Using the recently developed method of nasosorption with synthetic adsorptive matrices (SAM), a series of samples were taken.
- In another recent study, synthetic compound toxtazin B has been found to affect ToxT by inhibiting tcpP transcription, but mechanisms behind tcpP inhibition is still obscure [15 ].
- Plant-derived active phytometabolites, as well as their semi-synthetic and synthetic analogs, have served as a major route to the development of new pharmaceuticals compounds [1 ].
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Synthetic food can be texturized to make it resemble meat.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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