Synthesis
in chemistry, the building up of more or less complex bodies by the direct union of their elements, or of groups of elements. Thus, water can be produced synthetically by the union of SYNTHESIS two atoms of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen. In logic, the method by composition, in opposition to the method of resolution or analysis. In s n synthesis, we reason from axioms, definitions, and already known principles, till we arrive at a desired conclusion. Of this nature are most of the processes of geometrical reasoning. In synthesis, we ascend from particular cases to general ones; in analysis, we descend from general cases to particulars. and characterized a