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abstraction
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
(euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
(engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation. [First attested in the late 18th century.]
(art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
(geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
(computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
(computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
“Thus Brierre de Boismont relates that a patient of his would sometimes be plunged into a state of abstraction, and remain immovable, with eyes fixed on vacancy.”
“It appeared to him that his progress was at one time almost entirely suspended by the intense abstraction with which he pursued his mathematical studies.”
“At first, the idea was vague and formless, a brilliant abstraction about the surface area of a sphere, which is three times larger than the surface area of a flat chip.”
abstract
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
“Help Sonic collect gems and rings while avoiding the badniks in this fast-paced conversion of the original abstracta game.”
“So there were recognizable things such as lizards and squares, and realists argued that the abstracta of lizardom and squareness also had a real independent existence.”
