Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A synergistic organ, drug, or agent.
  • noun Christianity An adherent of synergism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In theology, one who holds to the doctrine of synergism: specifically used to designate one of a party in the Lutheran Church, in the sixteenth century, which held this doctrine.
  • Synergistic.
  • noun One who or that which cooperates with another in the production of a certain effect.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who holds the doctrine of synergism.
  • noun (Med.) A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any synergistic agent

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a drug that augments the activity of another drug

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Examples

  • We could be very complimentary and synergist allies, each adding to the other.

    Terry Tillman: The Real Threat 2008

  • Few scientists contest these points, and the risks from climate change should not be viewed in isolation from these other synergist trends in global societal and ecological change.

    Climate Change Has Health Consequences 2008

  • If I were a man, I'd be a synergist, but instead, like Grandma Moses, I was the resident knitter.

    Beth Feldman: The Knitter 2008

  • The fate of the unrepentant synergist is to see the seeds of all things in all other things and that goes double for your friendly neighborhood Con Man.

    Michael Conniff: Con Games: Right Wing, Left Wing, Single Wing 2008

  • Without a synergist there would be no way to turn the hand.

    Muscles Part 2 2008

  • Since the monergist/synergist distinction, and debate, lies at the source of much theological polemic about justification and predestination, it's necessary to get clear about the former so as to add light rather than heat to the latter.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

  • Since the monergist/synergist distinction, and debate, lies at the source of much theological polemic about justification and predestination, it's necessary to get clear about the former so as to add light rather than heat to the latter.

    Philip Cary on monergism Mike L 2006

  • You have to require the synergist and the healthy muscles to play.

    CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2005 2005

  • When applied with 100 ppm of synergist (either fenoxycarb or piperonyl butoxide), the resultant toxicity was improved by factors of 1. 5-2, and 4, respectively.

    Chapter 7 1994

  • FIELDS, P.G. (1991) The cold-hardiness of Cryptolestes ferrugineus and the use of ice nucleation-active bacteria as a cold synergist.pp. 1183-1192.

    Chapter 10 1994

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