Definition of "synthesis" []

• The combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole. (noun)
• The complex whole so formed. (noun)
• Chemistry Formation of a compound from simpler compounds or elements. (noun)
• Philosophy Reasoning from the general to the particular; logical deduction. (noun)
• Philosophy The combination of thesis and antithesis in the Hegelian dialectical process whereby a new and higher level of truth is produced. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The synthesis in such a conception cannot proceed a priori -- without the aid of experience -- to the intuition which corresponds to the conception; and, for this reason, none of these conceptions can produce a determinative synthetical proposition, they can never present more than a principle of the synthesis* of possible empirical intuitions."
• "If this refers to the references you previously cited then kindly cite the exact data you are using to support your claim that evidence for the cause of protein synthesis is linked to "specialization of function in self-replicators.""
• "After all, protein synthesis is essential for life, and human ribosomes are similar but not identical to microbial ribosomes, so it's possible to find drugs that inactivate only the latter."