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How to pronounce synthetic in English?

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Synonyms man-made, semisynthetic


synthetic leather.
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Synonyms celluloid
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Synonyms synthetical
Derivation synthesis


limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology.
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Synonyms synthetic substance
Type of chemical compound, compound
Has types phosphor, synthetic rubber, rubber, plasticine
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Synonyms synthetical
Derivation synthesis


`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition.
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counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic.
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Examples of synthetic

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The synthetic ice, that is, that's been laid down on Buntport's warehouse floor.
From the denverpost.com
Ellington also sees synthetic bacteria as having potential as a scientific tool.
From the newscientist.com
Making a fully synthetic bacterial chromosome would partly be about showing off.
From the economist.com
Because this whole AEG proposal is a synthetic-corporate vomit of a traffic jam.
From the latimes.com
It is derived from a plant, but synthetic versions are produced in illegal labs.
From the sacbee.com
That race was run over a synthetic surface that may not have been to his liking.
From the kentucky.com
Like Curlin, Raven's Pass will be trying a synthetic surface for the first time.
From the thestate.com
Manufacturers that add a synthetic supplement have ostensibly fixed the problem.
From the washingtonpost.com
She showed a great, great turn of foot and she really likes the synthetic track.
From the kentucky.com
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  • A compound made artificially by chemical reactions
  • Man-made: not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
  • Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch
  • Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
  • Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
  • Celluloid: artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
  • A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio, as opposed to a low morpheme-per-word ratio in what is described as an isolating language. ...
  • Synthetic was the first single taken from Spineshank's album The Height of Callousness.
  • (Synthetics (Odyssey 5)) The Synthetics are a fictional robotic species that appear in the TV show Odyssey 5.