In the sense of combination

• Synthetic position
  Synthetic position
  In finance, a synthetic position is a way to create the payoff of a financial instrument using other financial instruments.A synthetic position can be created by buying or selling physical financial instruments and/or derivatives....
  
  , a concept in finance
• Analytic–synthetic distinction, a concept in philosophy
• Synthetic language
  Synthetic language
  In linguistic typology, a synthetic language is a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio, as opposed to a low morpheme-per-word ratio in what is described as an isolating language...
  
  , a language type that often uses several small pieces of words to form new words

In the sense of artificial

• Synthetic fiber
  Synthetic fiber
  Synthetic fibers are the result of extensive research by scientists to improve on naturally occurring animal and plant fibers. In general, synthetic fibers are created by forcing, usually through extrusion, fiber forming materials through holes into the air, forming a thread...
  
  , a fiber not made from natural (animal, plant) materials
• Synthetic intelligence
  Synthetic intelligence
  Synthetic intelligence is an alternative term for artificial intelligence which emphasizes that the intelligence of machines need not be an imitation or any way artificial; it can be a genuine form of intelligence. John Haugeland proposes an analogy with artificial and synthetic diamonds—only the...
  
  , a view that the intelligence of computing machines is not an imitation or in any way artificial. See also artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
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• Synthetic or constructed language
  Constructed language
  A planned or constructed language—known colloquially as a conlang—is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary has been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally...
  
  , such as Esperanto
• Synthetic music, produced by a synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , a machine to create artificial sound and music
• Synthetic chord
  Synthetic chord
  In music the mystic chord or Prometheus chord is a complex six-note chord, scale, or pitch collection, which loosely serves as the harmonic and melodic basis for some of the later pieces by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin...
  
   in music theory
• Synthetic person or legal personality
  Legal personality
  Legal personality is the characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law to have the status of a person....
  
  , characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person
• Synthetic element
  Synthetic element
  In chemistry, a synthetic element is a chemical element that is too unstable to occur naturally on Earth, and therefore has to be created artificially. So far 30 synthetic elements have been discovered—that is, synthesized...
  
  s, chemical elements that naturally occur rarely or never on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments
• Synthetic data
  Synthetic data
  Synthetic data are "any production data applicable to a given situation that are not obtained by direct measurement" according to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms; where Craig S...
  
  , are any data applicable to a given situation that are not obtained by direct measurement or from live system as described in Synthetic data
  Synthetic data
  Synthetic data are "any production data applicable to a given situation that are not obtained by direct measurement" according to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms; where Craig S...
  
  ; terminology used in testing of software applications

In the sense of both

• Synthetic chemical or synthetic compress, produced by the process of chemical synthesis
  Chemical synthesis
  In chemistry, chemical synthesis is purposeful execution of chemical reactions to get a product, or several products. This happens by physical and chemical manipulations usually involving one or more reactions...
  
  
• Synthetic organic compounds are tens of thousands of synthetic chemical compounds, all containing carbon, that are extremely useful, including medicines, rubbers, plastics, refrigerants. They may also act as manmade contaminants in water, in air, or in solid substances.
• Synthetic fuel
  Synthetic fuel
  Synthetic fuel or synfuel is a liquid fuel obtained from coal, natural gas, oil shale, or biomass. It may also refer to fuels derived from other solids such as plastics or rubber waste. It may also refer to gaseous fuels produced in a similar way...
  
  
• Synthetic oil
  Synthetic oil
  Synthetic oil is a lubricant consisting of chemical compounds that are artificially made . Synthetic lubricants can be manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil, but can also be synthesized from other raw materials...
  
  

See also

• Artificial (disambiguation)
• Man-made (disambiguation)
  Man-made (disambiguation)
  Man-made may refer to:*Artificial *Synthetic *Man-made hazard*Man-Made, the eighth album by British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub*"Man Made", a song by A Flock of Seagulls on their album A Flock of Seagulls...
  
  
• Pharmaceutical drug
• Plastic
  Plastic
  A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids used in the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular mass, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce production costs...
  
  
• Synthetic rubber
  Synthetic rubber
  Synthetic rubber is is any type of artificial elastomer, invariably a polymer. An elastomer is a material with the mechanical property that it can undergo much more elastic deformation under stress than most materials and still return to its previous size without permanent deformation...