SYNOPSIS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A collective view of any subject; as a synopsis of astronomy, theology, . SYNOVIA. {GY.ffvv, axiA uiov,anegg.) The fluid which lubricates the cartilaginous surfaces of the joints: it is glairy, and resembles the white of egg. SYNTAX. {Gr. irvvrciira-tu, J arrange together.) In Grammar and Rhetoric, the disposition of the words and members of a sentence in the grammatical arrangements proper to the language. See Grammar. SY'iiTllESlS.{Gr.(rvv,withs Tidnf^i, I place.) In Geometry and Logic, the method of demonstration which sets out from some principle established or a umed, or proposition already demonstrated, and ascends through a series of propositions to that which is enunciated. Synthesis is also called the direct method or composition, and is the reverse of analysis or resolution. It is the method followed in Euclid's Eletnents. For the sense in which analysis and synthesis were understood by the ancient geometricians, see Analysis. Synthesis. In Chemistry, those chemical operations by which compounds are obtained by the union of the separate component parts are called synthetic. The term is especially used as opposed to analysis. Thus I demonstrate the composition of water analytically by resolving it into oxygen and hydrogen gases; and synthetically, by recombining those gases so as again to produce the water which had previously been decomposed; the terms synthesis and analysis being, in fact, synonymous with composition and decomposition. [s. 1216]