synthesis

plural syntheses

1. countableuncountableThe formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.

   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.

   1990 December 16, Phil Harper, “Affirmed”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 9

2. countableuncountablecomputingCreation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms.
3. countableuncountablechemistryThe reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
4. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA deduction from the general to the particular, by applying the rules of logic to a premise.
5. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe combination of thesis and antithesis.
6. countableuncountablegovernmentIn intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation.
7. countablerhetoricuncountableAn apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
8. countableuncountablegrammarThe uniting of ideas into a sentence.
9. countableuncountablemedicineThe reunion of parts that have been divided.
10. countableuncountableAn Ancient Roman dining-garment.

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

    1918, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, page 132