  synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. the term synergy comes from the attic greek word ÏÏÎ½ÎµÏÎ³Î¯Î± "synergy". online etymology dictionary. (confer koine greek:  ) from , , meaning "working together". ==definition== synergy, an abstract concept, is the combination of multiple ingredients producing a result greater than the simple arithmetic summation of the individual components. for example; flour, water, yeast, and heat yield bread. the metric of change is arbitrary, so long as the result is generally considered greater. it may be volume, temperature, flavor, efficiency, aesthetic, or whatever. the increase may be objective or subjective. synergy is a potential property of interaction; some processes do not exhibit synergy. all known examples of synergy have included the interaction of one or more of the constituent ingredients. a lack of interaction would, by definition, yield no change and consequently no greater anything. most examples of synergy include the transformation of the components into an obviously but not necessarily different result. synergy has been applied to many diverse fields; physiology, medicine, biochemistry, pharmacology, business, and others. a notable exception would be mathematics. the terms 'synergy' and 'synergism' are virtual equivalents. in theology, however, regarding the process of regeneration, the term synergism is used exclusively. ==descriptions and usages== in the natural world, synergistic phenomena are ubiquitous, ranging from physics (for example, the different combinations of quarks that produce protons and neutrons) to chemistry (a popular example is water, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen), to the cooperative interactions among the genes in genomes, the division of labor in bacterial colonies, the synergies of scale in multi-cellular organisms, as well as the many different kinds of synergies produced by socially-organized groups, from honeybee colonies to wolf packs and human societies: compare stigmergy, a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions that results in the self-assembly of complex systems. even the tools and technologies that are widespread in the natural world represent important sources of synergistic effects. the tools that enabled early hominins to become systematic big-game hunters is a primordial human example.peter a. corning, nature's magic: synergy in evolution and the fate of humankind, new york: cambridge university press 2003 isbn 0-521-82547-4; peter a. corning, holistic darwinism: synergy, cybernetics and the bioeconomics of evolution, chicago:
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