Synthetic may refer to:

Science

  • Synthetic biology
  • Synthetic chemical or compound, produced by the process of chemical synthesis
  • Synthetic elements, 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
  • Synthetic population
  • Synthetic population (biology)

Industry

  • Synthetic diamond
  • Synthetic fibers, cloth or other material made from other substances than natural (animal, plant) materials
  • Synthetic fuel
  • Synthetic marijuana
  • Synthetic oil
  • Synthetic rubber

Other

  • Synthetic position, a concept in finance
  • Synthetic-aperture radar, a type or radar
  • Analytic–synthetic distinction, in philosophy
  • Synthetic language in linguistics, inflected or agglutinative languages
  • Synthetic intelligence a term emphasizing that true intelligence expressed by computing machines is not an imitation or "artificial."
  • Synthetic or constructed language, such as Esperanto
  • Synthetic music, produced by a synthesizer, a machine to create artificial sound and music
  • Synthetic chord in music theory
  • Synthetic person or legal personality, characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person
  • Synthetic data, 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, (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation or scripted recordings of web transactions
  • Synthetic setae, 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, 2000

See also

  • Artificial (disambiguation)
  • Man-made (disambiguation)
  • Medication
  • Plastic
  • Synthetic phonics