The act of being fake (synthetic) not trying to be someone your told to be. Synthetica is also the title of Metric 5th album and a Metric song.
Emily Haines: So hard, hard to resist synthetica! We're all the time confined to fit the mold, but I won't ever let them make a loser of my soul.
by I Love Emily Haines December 9, 2013
Get the synthetica mug.Originally coined on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, a Synthetic Friday occurs on a Thursday preceding a Friday in which the market is closed. Since there is no work on Friday, Thursday essentially becomes like a Friday. The word synthetic is used and derived from an option strategy called a Synthetic Long Stock, in which a trader buys a call and shorts a put, each with the same strike price (there are different variations of this strategy/trade.)
Market Maker A: "The market is closed tomorrow since it is Good Friday."
Market Maker B: "Nice, today's a Synthetic Friday."
Market Maker A: "Let's get bombed."
Market Maker B: "Nice, today's a Synthetic Friday."
Market Maker A: "Let's get bombed."
by SyntheticFriday April 1, 2010
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The sound of gunfire from a handgun, rifle, automatic weapon, etc. created solely by hardware or computer software synthesis. Found most frequently in computer video game or demo choons.
No guns are fouled and no poor, innocent, helpless, defenseless bullets are damaged or destroyed when synthetic gunfire is employed.
No guns are fouled and no poor, innocent, helpless, defenseless bullets are damaged or destroyed when synthetic gunfire is employed.
The title zax for the Commodore Amiga video game, "Datastorm" is just loaded with synthetic gunfire! How kewl!!!
by Telephony October 20, 2015
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Most frequently heard in electronic music ("electronica" is the name of the actual musical genre).
No real hi-hats are damaged or destroyed when synthetic hi-hats are employed.
Most frequently heard in electronic music ("electronica" is the name of the actual musical genre).
No real hi-hats are damaged or destroyed when synthetic hi-hats are employed.
The song, "Move to the Beat" by the electronica group Monkey Zound has synthetic hi-hats in it! How kewl!
by Telephony November 14, 2015
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by Jubruption February 1, 2016
Get the Synthetic mug.A framework of material reality as a manifestation of the irreversible nature of linear time
Posits linear time, material reality, and history as illusions or antitheses of Nietzsche's nihilism.
The synthesis of Karl Marx's dialectical materialism
Posits linear time, material reality, and history as illusions or antitheses of Nietzsche's nihilism.
The synthesis of Karl Marx's dialectical materialism
Synthetic materialism argues that there is no history and by extension that there is no material reality.
Rather than material reality creating the illusion of a past, synthetic materialism argues that the past creates the illusion of material reality
Rather than material reality creating the illusion of a past, synthetic materialism argues that the past creates the illusion of material reality
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