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Etymology

From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic).

derived from συνθετικός
derived from synthétique

Definitions

Of, or relating to synthesis.
Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be…
Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but…
Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
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1. Artificial, not genuine.
2. Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
3. Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to…
  Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships.
4. 7
  A synthetic compound.
  - Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.

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Derived

biosynthetic, chemosynthetic, ecosynthetic, electrosynthetic, geosynthetic, hemisynthetic, heterosynthetic, mechanosynthetic, metasynthetic, mutasynthetic, narcosynthetic, nonsynthetic, nucleosynthetic, oligosynthetic, osteosynthetic, parasynthetic, phosphosynthetic, photoelectrosynthetic, photosynthetic, polysynthetic, postsynthetic, presynthetic, proteosynthetic, psychosynthetic, pyrosynthetic, radiosynthetic, retrosynthetic, sDMARD, semisynthetic, simvastatin, synfuel, synthespian, synthetic air, synthetical, synthetically, synthetic biology, synthetic division, synthetic element, synthetic fiber, synthetic fibre · +19 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at synthetic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at synthetic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at synthetic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.