Usually means: Synthetic building block for molecules.
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▸ noun:  (chemistry) In retrosynthetic analysis, a structural unit within a molecule which is related to a possible synthetic operation

Similar:
synthome, synthone, total synthesis, synthetic, composition, mutasynthesis, semisynthetic, synthesis, retrosynthesis, heterosynthesis, more...

Opposite:
asyntheton, antithesis, antonym

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Similar:
synthome, synthone, total synthesis, synthetic, composition, mutasynthesis, semisynthetic, synthesis, retrosynthesis, heterosynthesis, more...

Opposite:
asyntheton, antithesis, antonym



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