An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(art) An abstract work of art. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Adjective
(obsolete) Derived; extracted. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 15th century.]
(now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
(archaic)Absent-minded. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
(art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation. [Attested from the early 17th century until the early 18th century.]
(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
(transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
(intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
(intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
(computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".