noun
- The process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds. )
- The combination of ideas into a complex whole.
- synonyms: synthetic thinking
- Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect. ).
- synonyms: deduction, deductive reasoning
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