Synthetic may refer to:

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Synthetic biology Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on living systems and organisms. It applies engineering principles to develop new biological parts, devices, and systems or to redesign existing systems found in nat ...

* Synthetic chemical or compound, produced by the process of

chemical synthesis Chemical synthesis (chemical combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products. This occurs by physical and chemical manipulations usually involving one or more reactions. In modern laboratory uses ...

Synthetic element A synthetic element is a known chemical element that does not occur naturally on Earth: it has been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, it i ...

s, chemical elements that are not naturally found on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments * Synthetic organic compounds synthetic chemical compounds based on carbon (organic compounds). *

Synthetic peptide In organic chemistry, peptide synthesis is the production of peptides, compounds where multiple amino acids are linked via amide bonds, also known as peptide bonds. Peptides are chemically synthesized by the condensation reaction of the carboxyl ...

* Synthetic population * Synthetic population (biology)

Industry

Synthetic fuel Synthetic fuel or synfuel is a liquid fuel, or sometimes Fuel gas, gaseous fuel, obtained from syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in which the syngas was derived from gasification of solid feedstocks such as coal or biomass or by ...

Synthetic oil Synthetic oil is a lubricant consisting of chemical compounds that are artificially modified or synthesised. Synthetic oil is used as a substitute for petroleum-refined oils when operating in extreme temperature, in metal stamping to provide en ...

Synthetic marijuana Synthetic cannabinoids, or neocannabinoids, are a class of designer drug molecules that bind to the same receptors to which cannabinoids ( THC, CBD and many others) in cannabis plants attach. These novel psychoactive substances should not be co ...

Synthetic diamond A synthetic diamond or laboratory-grown diamond (LGD), also called a lab-grown, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, or cultured diamond, is a diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process, in contrast to ...

Synthetic fibers Synthetic fibers or synthetic fibres (in British English; see spelling differences) are fibers made by humans through chemical synthesis, as opposed to natural fibers that are directly derived from living organisms, such as plants like cotton ...

, 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 Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track ...

Analytic–synthetic distinction The analytic–synthetic distinction is a semantic distinction used primarily in philosophy to distinguish between propositions (in particular, statements that are affirmative subject– predicate judgments) that are of two types: analytic propos ...

, in philosophy *

Synthetic language A synthetic language is a language that is characterized by denoting syntactic relationships between words via inflection or agglutination. Synthetic languages are statistically characterized by a higher morpheme-to-word ratio relative to an ...

in linguistics, inflected or agglutinative languages *

Synthetic intelligence Synthetic intelligence (SI) is an alternative/opposite term for artificial intelligence emphasizing that the intelligence of machines need not be an imitation or in any way artificial; it can be a genuine form of intelligence. John Haugeland prop ...

a term emphasizing that true intelligence expressed by computing machines is not an imitation or "artificial." * Synthetic or

constructed language A constructed language (shortened to conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed natural language, naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devise ...

, such as Esperanto * Synthetic music, produced by a

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

, a machine to create artificial sound and music *

Synthetic chord In music theory and harmony, harmonic musical analysis, analysis, a synthetic chord is a made-up or Common practice period, non-traditional (synthetic) chord (music), chord (collection of pitches) which cannot be analyzed in terms of traditional ...

in music theory * Synthetic person or

legal personality Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sen ...

, characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person *

Synthetic data Synthetic data are artificially generated rather than produced by real-world events. Typically created using algorithms, synthetic data can be deployed to validate mathematical models and to train machine learning models. Data generated by a comp ...

, 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 In software design, web design, and electronic product design, synthetic monitoring (also known as ''active monitoring or proactive monitoring'') is a monitoring technique that is done by using a simulation or scripted recordings of transactions ...

, (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation or scripted recordings of web transactions *

Synthetic setae Synthetic setae emulate the setae found on the gecko feet, toes of a gecko and scientific research in this area is driven towards the development of Dry glue, dry adhesives. Geckos have no difficulty mastering vertical walls and are apparently cap ...

, 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 ''The Height of Callousness'' is the second studio album by American metal band Spineshank, released on October 9, 2000, through Roadrunner Records. It was produced by Garth "GGGarth" Richardson alongside Spineshank guitarist Mike Sarkisyan an ...

'', 2000

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