synergy

Thân thiện

Two muscles work in synergy to lift a heavy weight.

Definition

Noun: 1. The interaction or cooperation of two or more agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. This concept is often applied in business, medicine, biology, and teamwork to describe a situation where the whole is more effective than the sum of its individual parts.

Usage and Examples

• General Usage: Describes a cooperative interaction that creates an enhanced outcome.
  • The synergy between the marketing and sales departments led to a record-breaking product launch.
  • There is a clear synergy when these two medications are taken together, improving patient outcomes significantly.
• Business Context: Frequently used to describe the strategic advantage gained from a merger, partnership, or collaborative team effort.
  • The company's acquisition was justified by the projected cost-saving synergies.
  • Our team's success is based on the creative synergy of its diverse members.

Advanced Usage and Nuances

• "To achieve/create synergy": This phrase is commonly used to express the goal or result of a successful collaboration.
  • The project's aim was to achieve synergy by combining our technological expertise with their market access.
• "Synergistic effect": A more technical term for the outcome produced by synergy.
  • The researchers studied the synergistic effect of the chemical compounds.

Variants and Related Words

• Synergistic (adjective): Relating to or producing synergy.
  • The partnership had a synergistic impact on innovation.
• Synergism (noun): Another term for synergy, often used in theological or philosophical contexts, but also interchangeable in general use.
  • The synergism of their efforts was undeniable.

Synonyms

• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something.
• Cooperation: The process of working together to the same end.
• Potentiation: (Specifically in medicine/pharmacology) The increase in the effectiveness of one agent by another.

Antonyms

• Antagonism: Active opposition or hostility, which in a functional sense works against synergy.
• Conflict: A serious disagreement or argument, typically preventing cooperative success.

Idioms and Common Phrases

• "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts": This is the core philosophical idea expressed by the word "synergy."
  • Our team truly embodies the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; that's the power of synergy.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• synergism