# Synthesis

Synthesis or synthesize may refer to:

## Science
### Chemistry and biochemistry

* Chemical synthesis, the execution of chemical reactions to form a more complex molecule from chemical precursors
** Organic synthesis, the chemical synthesis of organic compounds
*** Total synthesis, the complete organic synthesis of complex organic compounds, usually without the aid of biological processes
*** Convergent synthesis or linear synthesis, a strategy to improve the efficiency of multi-step chemical syntheses
** Dehydration synthesis, a chemical synthesis resulting in the loss of a water molecule
* Biosynthesis, the creation of an organic compound in a living organism, usually aided by enzymes
** Photosynthesis, a biochemical reaction using a carbon molecule to produce an organic molecule, using sunlight as a catalyst
** Chemosynthesis, the synthesis of biological compounds into organic waste, using methane or an oxidized molecule as a catalyst
** Amino acid synthesis, the synthesis of an amino acid from its constituents
*** Peptide synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of peptides using amino acids
**** Protein biosynthesis, the multi-step biochemical synthesis of proteins (long peptides)
** DNA synthesis, several biochemical processes for making DNA
*** DNA replication, DNA biosynthesis in vivo
*** Synthesis (cell cycle)
** RNA synthesis, the synthesis of RNA from nucleic acids, using another nucleic acid chain as a template
** ATP synthesis, the biochemical synthesis of ATP

### Physics

* Nucleosynthesis, the process of creating new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons
* Kinematic synthesis, part of the process of designing a machine to achieve its objective

### Electronics

* Logic synthesis, the process of converting a higher-level form of a design into a lower-level implementation
* High-level synthesis, an automated design process that interprets an algorithmic description of a desired behavior and creates hardware that implements that behavior
* Frequency synthesizer, an electronic system for generating any of a range of frequencies

### Speech and sound creation

* Sound synthesis, various methods of sound generation in audio electronics
** Wave field synthesis, a spatial audio rendering technique, characterized by creation of virtual acoustic environments
** Subtractive synthesis, a method of creating a sound by removing harmonics, characterised by the application of an audio filter to an audio signal
** Frequency modulation synthesis, a form of audio synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform is changed by frequency modulating it with a modulating frequency that is also in the audio range
* Speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech

## Humanities

* In philosophy, the end result of a dialectic, as in thesis, antithesis, synthesis
* A cognitive skill, in Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
* In philosophy and science, a higher a priori process than analysis
* in linguistics, a scale denoting the average ratio of morphemes to words; see synthetic language
* In law, the process of condensing and combining large quantities of information

## Music

* Synthesis (The Cryan' Shames album), 1968
* Synthesis (Evanescence album), 2017
* Synthesis (Reggie Workman album), 1986

## Other uses

* Synthesis anarchism, a form of anarchist organization which tries to join anarchists of different tendencies
* Synthesis (clothing), a garment or outfit worn in ancient Rome for dining or special occasions
* Synthesis, a 1974 Indian short animated film by A. R. Sen and B. R. Dohling, winner of the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film
* Synthesis (journal), a journal of chemical synthesis
* Program synthesis, a task in computer science to automatically generate programs from a formal specification