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      "From French synth\u00e9tique, from Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 (sunthetik\u00f3s); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic)."
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            "mean": "Of, or relating to synthesis."
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            "mean": "(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).\n2013 August 10, \u201cA new prescription\u201d, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one."
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            "mean": "(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic)."
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            "mean": "A synthetic compound.\n2007 January 14, Elsa Brenner, \u201cArt House to Get a Campus\u201d, in New York Times\u200e:Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said."
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