单词 | synthesis |
释义 | Word Frequency synthesis(ˈsɪnθɪsɪs) nounWord forms: plural -ses (-ˌsiːz) 1. the process of combining objects or ideas into a complex whole Compare analysis 2. the combination or whole produced by such a process 3. the process of producing a compound by a chemical reaction or series of reactions, usually from simpler or commonly available starting materials 4. linguistics the use of inflections rather than word order and function words to express the syntactic relations in a language Compare analysis (sense 5)5. philosophy archaic synthetic reasoning 6. philosophy a. (in the writings of Kant) the unification of one concept with another not contained in it Compare analysis (sense 7)b. the final stage in the Hegelian dialectic, that resolves the contradiction between thesis and antithesis Derived forms synthesist (ˈsynthesist) noun Word origin C17: via Latin from Greek sunthesis, from suntithenai to put together, from syn- + tithenai to place |
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