synthetic
合成的,合成,合成物,综合性的
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Definitions
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- : of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis.
- : noting or pertaining to compounds formed through a chemical process by human agency, as opposed to those of natural origin: synthetic vitamins; synthetic fiber.
- : characterized by a relatively widespread use of affixes, rather than separate words, to express syntactic relationships: Latin is a synthetic language, while English is analytic.Compare analytic, polysynthetic.
- : Also syn·thet·i·cal. Logic. of or relating to a noncontradictory proposition in which the predicate is not included in, or entailed by, the subject.
- : not real or genuine; artificial; feigned: a synthetic chuckle at a poor joke.
- : Jewelry. noting a gem mineral manufactured so as to be physically, chemically, and optically identical with the mineral as found in nature. noting a gem mineral manufactured and pigmented in imitation of a natural gemstone of that name.
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- : something made by a synthetic, or chemical, process.
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Examples
Another client is an Ohio-based manufacturer of cotton swabs that is replacing the cotton with a synthetic equivalent in order to make nasal testing swabs uncontaminated by the plant fiber’s DNA.
The team hopes their new cotton plants might eventually be grown widely and made into clothes, helping to displace the toxic dyes and synthetic materials used by the fashion industry.
All he needed was a long, two-dimensional chain—natural or synthetic—and the chain should fold itself automatically, similar to how it folds into the double helix inside our bodies.
Because the smell was completely synthetic, though, researchers could mess with it.
The fully synthetic nature of the Arkansas team’s technology could thus have a leg up on biologically-based approaches.
One key ingredient of the stuff: Propylene glycol, a synthetic liquid that absorbs water.
The Illinois legislation does not include bioplastics like PHA, defining the banned microplastics to be of the synthetic type.
But the arguments over drug testing may cease to matter if the synthetic drug epidemic continues.
With more than 300 synthetic cannabinoids in use today, drug-testing companies are struggling to keep up with the new varieties.
A dangerous synthetic drug trend is fueling an epidemic among American youth.
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