Amalgam vs. Synthesis — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Amalgam and Synthesis
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Amalgam
An alloy of mercury and silver used in dental fillings.
Synthesis
The combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole.
Amalgam
An alloy of mercury and tin used in silvering mirrors.
Synthesis
The complex whole so formed.
Amalgam
A combination of diverse elements; a mixture
An amalgam of strength, reputation, and commitment to ethical principles.
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Synthesis
(Chemistry) Formation of a compound from simpler compounds or elements.
Amalgam
(metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
Synthesis
Reasoning from the general to the particular; logical deduction.
Amalgam
A combination of different things.
Synthesis
The combination of thesis and antithesis in the Hegelian dialectical process whereby a new and higher level of truth is produced.
Amalgam
One of the ingredients in an alloy.
Synthesis
The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
Amalgam
To amalgamate.
Synthesis
(signal processing) Creation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms.
Amalgam
An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
Synthesis
(chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
Amalgam
A mixture or compound of different things.
Synthesis
(logic) A deduction from the general to the particular.
Amalgam
A native compound of mercury and silver.
Synthesis
(philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
Amalgam
To amalgamate.
Synthesis
(military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation.
Amalgam
An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
Synthesis
(rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
Amalgam
A combination or blend of diverse things;
His theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas
Synthesis
(grammar) The uniting of ideas into a sentence.
Synthesis
(medicine) The reunion of parts that have been divided.
Synthesis
Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
Synthesis
The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis.
Synthesis
The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; - the opposite of analysis.
Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other.
Synthesis
The process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)
Synthesis
The combination of ideas into a complex whole
Synthesis
Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
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