English
Etymology
From synthesize + -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zɚ/
Noun
synthesizer (plural synthesizers)
- (music) An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.
- (music) An electronic instrument consisting of a module, or a set of modules, that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
- (electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.
- (software) A software program that allows a computer to be used as a musical instrument – virtual instrument
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Descendants
Translations
music: an electronic keyboard instrument
- Albanian: sintetizues (sq) m
- Arabic: سِنْثِسَيْزَر m (sinṯisayzar), سينثيسايزر m (sīnṯīsāyzar), مُرَكِّب (ar) m (murakkib), جِهَاز مَزْج m (jihāz mazj)
- Armenian: սինթեզատոր (sintʻezator)
- Belarusian: сінтэзатар m (sintezatar)
- Bulgarian: синтеза́тор m (sintezátor)
- Catalan: sintetitzador (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 合成器 (zh) (héchéngqì)
- Corsican: sintetizatore m, sintetizadore m
- Czech: syntezátor m
- Danish: synthesizer
- Dutch: synthesizer (nl) m
- Esperanto: sintezilo, sinto
- Estonian: süntesaator
- Finnish: syntetisaattori (fi)
- French: synthétiseur (fr) m
- Galician: sintetizador m
- Georgian: სინთეზატორი (sintezaṭori)
- German: Synthesizer (de) m
- Greek: συνθετητής m (synthetitís)
- Hebrew: סינתיסייזר m (síntisayzer), מְסַנְתֵּז m (m'santéz), סַנְתָז m (santáz)
- Hungarian: szintetizátor (hu)
- Indonesian: penyintesis
- Irish: sintéiseoir m
- Italian: sintetizzatore (it) m
- Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
- Kazakh: синтезатор (sintezator)
- Khmer: សង្គ្រោះ (km) (sangkroh)
- Korean: 합성기 (hapseonggi), 신시사이저 (sinsisaijeo)
- Lao: ການສັງເຄາະ (kān sang khǫ)
- Latin: synthetisator m
- Macedonian: синтисајзер m (sintisajzer)
- Malay: pensintesis
- Malayalam: പ്രയോഗങ്ങൾ (prayōgaṅṅaḷ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fjøl m or f,
- Occitan: sintetizador m
- Polish: syntezator (pl) m, syntetyzator m, syntetyzer m
- Portuguese: sintetizador (pt) m
- Romanian: sintetizator (ro) n
- Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
- Sardinian: sintetizadore m, sintetitzadore m
- Scots: synthesiser
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: синтесајзер m
- Roman: sintesajzer (sh) m
- Slovak: sintetizator m
- Spanish: sintetizador m
- Swedish: synthesizer (sv) c, synt (sv) c
- Tajik: синтезатор (tg) (sintezator)
- Thai: ซินธิไซเซอร์ (sin-tí-sai-sêr)
- Vietnamese: bộ tổng hợp
- Yiddish: סינטאַסייזער (sintaseyzer)
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music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard
electronics: an electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation
- Indonesian: penyintesis
- Irish: sintéiseoir m
- Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
- Malay: pensintesis
- Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
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electronics: an electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns
- Indonesian: penyintesis
- Irish: sintéiseoir m
- Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
- Malay: pensintesis
- Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
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Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English synthesizer.
Noun
synthesizer c
- (music) a synthesizer
- Synonym: (colloquial) synt
Declension
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