SYNTHESISとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from συντίθημι (suntíthēmi, “put together, combine”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “set, place”). Doublet of sandhi.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/
• ハイフネーション: syn‧the‧sis

名詞

synthesis (countable and uncountable, plural syntheses)

1. The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
   • 1990 December 16, Phil Harper, “Affirmed”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 9:

     In its synthesis of different art forms and various techniques, Tongues Untied actually represented a departure for Riggs, whose previous work […] had been in a relatively traditional documentary format.

2. (signal processing) Creation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms.
3. (chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
4. (logic) A deduction from the general to the particular, by applying the rules of logic to a premise.
5. (philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
6. (military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation.
7. (rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
8. (grammar) The uniting of ideas into a sentence.
9. (medicine) The reunion of parts that have been divided.
10. An Ancient Roman dining-garment.
    • 1918, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, page 132:

      The Saturnalia was apparently the only occasion, however, when the synthesis could be worn in public with decorum.

反意語

• analysis

派生語

関連する語

• synthesize
• synthetic

Further reading

• “synthesis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “synthesis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsyn.tʰɛ.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsin̪.t̪e.s̬is]

名詞

synthesis f (genitive synthesis or syntheseōs or synthesios); third declension

1. A collection or reunion of many objects of analogous nature.
2. mixture, compound (medicine)
3. suit (of clothes), costume
4. a kind of loose garment, worn at table
5. dinner service

語形変化

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

派生した語

参照

• “synthesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• synthesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “synthesis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “synthesis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin