Effective vs Synergy - What's the difference?
effective | synergy |
Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
Producing a decided or decisive effect.
* Jeremy Taylor
Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
Actually in effect.
Having no negative coefficients.
(military) A soldier fit for duty.
*1876 , , Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign :
*:The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives , and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.
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Behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.
(medicine) Combined action; the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
(pharmacology) An interaction between drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
Benefits resulting from combining two different groups, people, objects or processes.
As nouns the difference between effective and synergy
is that effective is (military) a soldier fit for duty while synergy is behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.As an adjective effective
is having the power to produce a required effect or effects.effective
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The pill is an effective method of birth control.
- The president delivered an effective speech!
- Whosoever is an effective , real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
- How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
- My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
- The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
- The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
- The curfew is effective at midnight.