Generally, synthetic means pertaining to synthesis, i.e., the putting-together of two or more parts into a coherent whole, whether by design or by natural processes.

• In philosophy, see synthetic proposition.
• In mathematics Synthetic Division refers to Ruffini's rule
• In chemistry, see chemical synthesis.
• In linguistics, see synthetic language.
• In sociolinguistics, see synthetic personalisation.
• In fibers, see synthetic fiber
• See also synthesizer

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