sybarite | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: voluptuary |
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sycamore | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, platan |
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(noun) variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree | Synonyms: lacewood |
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pseudoplatanus, great maple, scottish maple |
(noun) thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore | Synonyms: Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore fig |
syconium | (noun) the fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets | - |
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sycophancy | (noun) fawning obsequiousness | - |
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sycophant | (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, toady |
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syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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syllabication | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabification |
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syllabicity | (noun) the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language | - |
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syllabification | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabication |
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syllable | (noun) a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme | - |
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syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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(noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
syllabus | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, programme |
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syllepsis | (noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one | - |
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syllogiser | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogist, syllogizer |
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syllogism | (noun) deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises | - |
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syllogist | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogizer |
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syllogistic | (noun) in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises. | - |
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syllogizer | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogist |
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sylph | (noun) an elemental being believed to inhabit the air | - |
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(noun) a slender graceful young woman | - |
sylva | (noun) the forest trees growing in a country or region | Synonyms: silva |
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sylvan | (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
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sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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sylvine | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvite |
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sylvite | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvine |
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symbiosis | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: mutualism |
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symbol | (noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization |
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(noun) an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance | - |
symbolatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbololatry |
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symbolisation | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolism, symbolization |
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(noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolization |
(noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolization |
symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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symbolising | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolizing |
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symbolism | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolization |
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(noun) a system of symbols and symbolic representations | - |
(noun) an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images | - |
symbolist | (noun) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols | - |
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(noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer |
symbolization | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolism |
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(noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation |
(noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation |
symbolizer | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolist |
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symbolizing | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolising |
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symbology | (noun) the study or the use of symbols and symbolism | - |
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symbololatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbolatry |
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symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
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symmetricalness | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetry |
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symmetry | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness |
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(noun) (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions | Synonyms: isotropy |
(noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: proportion |
sympathectomy | (noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
sympathizer | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathiser, well-wisher |
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(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathiser |
sympathy | (noun) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion | Synonyms: understanding |
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(noun) sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) | Synonyms: fellow feeling |
(noun) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other | - |
sympatry | (noun) the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding | - |
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symphilid | (noun) minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops | Synonyms: garden centipede, garden symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata |
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symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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(noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
symphysion | (noun) the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible | - |
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symphysis | (noun) a growing together of parts or structures | - |
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(noun) an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures | - |
symploce | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe | - |
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symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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symposium | (noun) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations | - |
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symptom | (noun) anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | - |
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(noun) (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | - |
synaeresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: syneresis |
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(noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: syneresis |
synaesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synesthesia |
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synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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synapse | (noun) the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle | - |
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synapsid | (noun) extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull | Synonyms: synapsid reptile |
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synapsis | (noun) the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis | - |
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syncarp | (noun) fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple | Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit |
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syncategorem | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategoreme |
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syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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synchro | (noun) a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized | Synonyms: selsyn |
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synchrocyclotron | (noun) cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field | - |
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synchroflash | (noun) a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter | - |
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synchromesh | (noun) an automotive system for shifting gears in which the gears revolve at the same speed and so shift smoothly | - |
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synchroneity | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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synchronicity | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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synchronisation | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronization, synchronizing |
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(noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing |
(noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
synchroniser | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchronizer, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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synchronising | (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing |
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synchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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synchronization | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronizing |
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(noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronising, synchronizing |
(noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronizing, synchrony |
synchronizer | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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synchronizing | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization |
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(noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronising, synchronization |
(noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchrony |
synchronoscope | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronizer, synchroscope |
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synchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing |
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synchroscope | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronizer, synchronoscope |
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synchrotron | (noun) cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency | - |
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syncopation | (noun) a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat | - |
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(noun) (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') | Synonyms: syncope |
(noun) music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm | - |
syncopator | (noun) a musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band) | - |
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syncope | (noun) (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') | Synonyms: syncopation |
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(noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, faint, swoon |
syncretism | (noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections) | - |
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(noun) the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy) | - |
syncytium | (noun) a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers) | - |
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syndactylism | (noun) birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes | Synonyms: syndactyly |
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syndactyly | (noun) birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes | Synonyms: syndactylism |
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syndetikon | (noun) Syndetikon is an all-purpose adhesive manufactured from natural materials. | - |
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syndic | (noun) one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions | - |
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syndicalism | (noun) a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions | - |
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syndicalist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, nihilist |
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syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
(noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
syndication | (noun) organizing into or administering as a syndicate | - |
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(noun) selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time | - |
syndicator | (noun) a businessman who forms a syndicate | - |
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syndrome | (noun) a complex of concurrent things | - |
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(noun) a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease | - |
synecdoche | (noun) substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | - |
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synechia | (noun) adhesions between the iris and the lens or cornea resulting from trauma or eye surgery or as a complication of glaucoma or cataract; can lead to blindness | - |
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syneresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: synaeresis |
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(noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: synaeresis |
synergism | (noun) the theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace | - |
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(noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | Synonyms: synergy |