Synergy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Synergy \Syn"er*gy\, n. [Gr. ?. See {Synergetic}.]
     2. Combined action; especially (Med.), the combined healthy
        action of every organ of a particular system; as, the
        digestive synergy.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents
        such that the result of the combined action is greater
        than expected as a simple additive combination of the two
        agents acting separately; -- also called {synergism.}.
        Opposite to {antagonism}.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  synergy
       n : the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for
           example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of
           their individual effects [syn: {synergism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "synergy":
     accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, association,
     bipartisanship, cahoots, co-working, coaction, coadjuvancy,
     coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship,
     coincidence, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism,
     collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort,
     commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism,
     communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert,
     concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse,
     concurrence, confluence, conjunction, consilience, conspiracy,
     cooperation, cooperativeness, correspondence, duet, duumvirate,
     ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, esprit, esprit de corps,
     fellow feeling, fellowship, harmony, joining of forces,
     joint effort, joint operation, junction, mass action, morale,
     mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, parasitism,
     pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet,
     reciprocity, saprophytism, septet, sextet, simultaneity,
     solidarity, symbiosis, synchronism, synergism, team spirit,
     teamwork, trio, triumvirate, troika, union, united action