Synergy vs Triangulation - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) A technique in surveying in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry
(countable) The network of triangles, so obtained, that are the basis of a map or chart
(uncountable) In navigation or seismology, a process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations.
(chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a triangular path in order to force the advance of a pawn.
(qualitative research) The use of three (or more) researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.
* 2003 , Nahid Golafshani, Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research'' (in ''The Qualitative Report Volume 8 Number 4 December 2003 597-607) [http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-4/golafshani.pdf]
As nouns the difference between synergy and triangulation
is that synergy is behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts while triangulation is (uncountable) a technique in surveying in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry.synergy
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(wikipedia synergy)Noun
(synergies)Usage notes
* (term) is frequently dismissed as business jargon.Antonyms
* anergy (in economics )External links
* *triangulation
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- Triangulation was established by asking researcher
- 2 and researcher #4 to conduct their own interview of the participant.