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.
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