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synthetical

/sin-thet-ik/US // sɪnˈθɛt ɪk //UK // (sɪnˈθɛtɪk) //

合成的,综合性的,综合性,综合

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something made by a synthetic, or chemical, process.
    • : synthetics. substances or products made by chemical synthesis, as plastics or artificial fibers.the science or industry concerned with such products.

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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.

  • Nearly all the translating words given in this section so far are synthetic.

  • Drapes of velvety synthetic, dyed the deep green that Martian colonists like, covered the walls.

  • If you want to make a synthetic sapphire, you start with a seed sapphire, and the artificial process builds up on that.

  • Approximately two-thirds of such chemical employees are found in the synthetic fiber field.

  • Virginia now has approximately 30% of the total employees in the United States engaged in synthetic fibers.