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 * Organic compound#Synthetic compounds, 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

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