Synergy vs. Symbiosis

Synergynoun

(systems theory) A synonym of binding energy.

Synergynoun

(physiology) The cooperation of two or more nerves, muscles, organs, etc.

Synergynoun

(pharmacology) The combined action of two or more drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.

Synergynoun

(figurative) Benefits resulting from combining different groups, people, objects or processes.

Synergynoun

Combined action

Synergynoun

An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately; - also called synergism.. Opposite to antagonism.

Synergynoun

the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects

Synergy

Synergy is an interaction or cooperation giving rise to a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. The term synergy comes from the Attic Greek word συνεργία synergia from synergos, συνεργός, meaning .

Symbiosisnoun

A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.

Symbiosisnoun

(ecology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species that normally benefits both members. An interspecies cooperation.

Symbiosisnoun

(biology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species, regardless of benefit to the members.

Symbiosisnoun

(possibly obsolete) The state of people living together in a community.

Symbiosisnoun

The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic symbiosis or antipathetic symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algæ and fungi to form lichens, and in the inclusion of algæ in radiolarians) it is called conjunctive symbiosis; if there is no actual union of the organisms (as in the association of ants with myrmecophytes), disjunctive symbiosis.

Symbiosisnoun

the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other

Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις, symbíōsis, , from σύν, sýn, , and βίωσις, bíōsis, ) is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. The organisms, each termed a symbiont, must be of different species.