- 1綜效、加乘效果（1+1>2）
Synergy is what you get when two or more things work together and the result is bigger than the two results added up. Two medicines taken together may help far more than either alone; two departments that share what they know may solve a problem neither could solve by itself. That is the honest meaning, and it is used seriously in science and medicine — 'a synergy between the two drugs'. In business it has had a harder life. Companies merging love to promise 'synergies', and it has been said so often, so vaguely, that many people now hear it as empty management talk, sometimes even as a polite word for cutting jobs after a merger. So the word is true and useful, but it carries a slight smell of the meeting room; use it where you can point at the real extra effect. The adjective is 'synergistic', the plural 'synergies' is common in the business sense, and 'synergise/synergize' as a verb sounds like a joke about business language to many ears.
From the word’s history
From Greek synergia: syn- 'together' + -ergy 'work'.
源自希臘文 synergia，syn-（一起）加 -ergy（工作）。
組成From Greek sunergia 'working together': sun- 'with, together' + ergon 'work'. Modern English reads it as syn- + -ergy.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
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synergynoun/ˈsɪnəd͡ʒi/
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mathematicssciencessystems-theoryA synonym of binding energy.
- Depending on the initial condition of the system (initial alphabet and number of elements) the co-evolution of nested local and global hierarchies continues until the system reaches a maximum value of complexity. At least for nuclear systems a quantitative variable called "complexity" can be defined, which increases in an irreversible manner during stellar evolution (Winiwarter, 1983). This variable C is composed of an informational measure I describing the variety of the computed formulas and an energetic measure R describing the relative binding energy or "synergy" permitting the coherence of the system.
- In short, synergy is the consequence of the energy expended in creating order. It is locked up in the viable system created, be it an organism or a social system. It is at the level of the system. It is not discernible at the level of the system. It is not discernible at the level of the system's components. Whenever the system is dismembered to examine its components, this binding energy dissipates. An ordered library offers systemic possibilities, such as rapid search, selection, and aggregation, that cannot be explained by looking at the books themselves. These possibilities only exist because of the investment made in defining and creating interrelations between the books, their physical arrangement and the catalogues.
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medicinephysiologysciencesThe cooperation of two or more nerves, muscles, organs, etc.
- the digestive synergy
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medicinepharmacologysciencesThe combined action of two or more drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
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Benefits resulting from combining different groups, people, objects or processes.
- Others argued that the notion of a targeted war on a particular disease inevitably distracted from natural synergies with other areas of research.
- Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.
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