Synthetic - in The Sense of Artificial

In The Sense of Artificial

• Synthetic fiber, a fiber not made from natural (animal, plant) materials
• Synthetic intelligence, a view that the intelligence of computing machines is not an imitation or in any way artificial. See also artificial intelligence.
• Synthetic or constructed language, such as Esperanto
• Synthetic music, produced by a synthesizer, a machine to create artificial sound and music
• Synthetic chord in music theory
• Synthetic person or legal personality, characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person
• Synthetic elements, chemical elements that naturally occur rarely or never on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments
• Synthetic data, are any data applicable to a given situation that are not obtained by direct measurement or from live system as described in Synthetic data; terminology used in testing of software applications
• Synthetic setae, emulate the anatomical processes found on various animals, including the feet of water striders and the toes of geckos.