synthesizer

See also: Synthesizer

English

Alternative forms

• synthesiser (especially UK)

Etymology

synthesize +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.θəˌsaɪ.zɚ/

Noun

synthesizer (plural synthesizers)

1. (music) An electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard.
2. (music) An electronic instrument module that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
3. (electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
4. (electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.

Derived terms

• synthesist

Translations

music: an electronic keyboard instrument

• Albanian: sintetizues (sq) m
• Arabic: سِنْثِسَيْزَر m (sinṯisayzar)
• Armenian: սինթեզատոր (sintʻezator)
• Catalan: sintetitzador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合成器 (zh) (héchéngqì)

• Czech: syntezátor m
• Danish: synthesizer
• Dutch: synthesizer (nl) m
• Esperanto: sintezilo, sinto
• Estonian: süntesaator
• Finnish: syntetisaattori (fi)
• French: synthétiseur (fr) m
• German: Synthesizer (de) m
• Greek: συνθετητής m (synthetitís)
• Hebrew: סינתיסייזר m
• Hungarian: szintetizátor (hu)
• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Italian: sintetizzatore (it) m
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
• Kazakh: синтезатор (sintezator)
• Khmer: សង្គ្រោះ (km) (sangkroh)
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• Korean: 합성기 (hapseonggi), 신시사이저 (sinsisaijeo)
• Lao: ການສັງເຄາະ (kān sang khǫ)
• Latin: synthetizator
• Macedonian: синтисајзер m (sintisajzer)
• Malay: pensintesis
• Malayalam: പ്രയോഗങ്ങൾ (prayōgaṅṅaḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjøl m or f,

• Polish: syntezator (pl) m
• Portuguese: sintetizador (pt) m
• Romanian: sintetizator (ro) m
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: синтесајзер m

  Roman: sintesajzer (sh) m

• Slovak: sintetizator m
• Spanish: sintetizador m
• Swedish: synthesizer (sv)
• Tajik: синтезатор (tg) (sintezator)
• Thai: ซินธิไซเซอร์ (sin-tí-sai-sêr)
• Vietnamese: bộ tổng hợp
• Yiddish: סינטאַסייזער (sintaseyzer)

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

• Greek: συνθετητής m (synthetitís)
• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Italian: sintetizzatore (it) m
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā), 音源 (ja) (ongen)
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• Malay: pensintesis
• Romanian: sintetizator (ro)
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)

electronics: an electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation

• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
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• Malay: pensintesis
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)

electronics: an electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns

• Indonesian: penyintesis
• Japanese: シンセサイザー (ja) (shinsesaizā)
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• Malay: pensintesis
• Russian: синтеза́тор (ru) m (sintɛzátor)

Further reading

• synthesizer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia