SYNERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synergy mean? 

• SYNERGY (noun)
  The noun SYNERGY has 1 sense:

1. the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects

  Familiarity information: SYNERGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

synergism; synergy

Hypernyms ("synergy" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "synergy"):

potentiation ((medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously)

Derivation:

synergetic (working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect)

 Context examples 

LIF in conjunction with BMP2 acts in synergy on primary fetal neural progenitor cells to induce astrocytes.

(Leukemia Inhibitory Factor, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

LIF and BMP2 cytokines signal through different receptors and transcription factors (STATs and SMADs) and act in synergy on neural progenitors to induce astrocytes.

(Leukemia Inhibitory Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Finally, this knowledge management system will create new synergies within and among the fields of research, resulting in a dramatic acceleration of our progress against cancer.

(Cancer Informatics Infrastructure, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers describes like a kind of synergy among all the causes that amount to worsening each individual problem.

(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)