Front | adjective 1 (of a substance) made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product: 2 Logic (of a proposition) having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience. Compare with analytic. 3 Linguistics (of a language) characterized by the use of inflections rather than word order to express grammatical structure. Contrasted with analytic and agglutinative. noun (usu. synthetics) a synthetic material or chemical, especially a textile fibre. |
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