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synergyThe enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. The word is used quite often to mean that combining forces produces a better product. However, in the field of software development, synergy is not the result. In many cases, the more people assigned to a programming job, the more the quality suffers. See Freedman's law. synergy the potential ability of individual organizations or groups to be more successful or productive as a result of a merger synergy [′sin·ər·jē] (pharmacology) Suppression of a strain of infectious microbes by concentrations of two or more drugs which are not active singly. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Concerns over the ecological significance of these effects were heightened in the late 1990s after reports of spectacular synergisms between binary mixtures of estrogenic pesticides in vitro (Arnold et al. Such surprises include, notably, environmental discontinuities with their ecological synergisms. Synergisms sometimes result, giving unexpected property enhancements. |
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