different between synthesis vs unification

English

Etymology

From Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from ????????? (suntíth?mi, “put together, combine”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “set, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n??s?s/
• Hyphenation: syn?the?sis

Noun

synthesis (countable and uncountable, plural syntheses)

1. The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
2. (chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
3. (logic) A deduction from the general to the particular.
4. (philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
5. (military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation.
6. (rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
7. (grammar) The uniting of ideas into a sentence.
8. (medicine) The reunion of parts that have been divided.

Antonyms

• analysis

Derived terms

Related terms

• synthesize
• synthetic

Translations

Further reading

• synthesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• synthesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from ????????? (suntíth?mi, “put together, combine”), from ??? (sún, “together”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “set, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?syn.t?e.sis/, [?s??n?t???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sin.te.sis/, [?sin?t??s?is]

Noun

synthesis f (genitive synthesis or synthese?s 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

Declension

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

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

References

• 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

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sunthesis

Etymology

From English sythesis, from Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?s??n??s?s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?s?n??s?s/

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in synthesis is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sunthesis. Nevertheless, synthesis is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, symbol/sumbol, system/sustem for similar examples.

Noun

synthesis m (plural synthesisau, not mutable)

1. synthesis

Related terms

• syntheseiddio (“synthesise”)
• synthetig (“synthetic”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “synthesis”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

Either from unify +? -ification or from French unification

Noun

unification (countable and uncountable, plural unifications)

1. The act of unifying.
2. The state of being unified.
3. (mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.

   • 5.7.T ( Unification theorem ) For any two terms or formulas
     without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds.
     (i) The unification algorithm UNIF₁, applied to X, Y,
     terminates after a finite number of steps.
     (ii) {X, Y} is unifiable iff UNIF₁ so indicates upon ter-
     mination. Moreover, the substitution ? then available as out-
     put is a most general unifier of {X, Y}.

Antonyms

• division

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• reunification

Further reading

• unification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

unifier +? -ification

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ni.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

unification f (plural unifications)

1. unification

Further reading

• “unification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).