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Abstraction - English Dictionary

 





1. The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
2. The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
3. An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
4. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
5. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
6. The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
7. A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
8. abstraction 1. Generalisation; ignoring or hiding details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances. Examples are abstract data types the representation details are hidden, abstract syntax the details of the concrete syntax are ignored, abstract interpretation details are ignored to analyse specific properties. 2. Parameterisation, making something a function of something else. Examples are lambda abstractions making a term into a function of some variable, higher-order functions parameters are functions, bracket abstraction making a term into a function of a variable. Opposite of concretisation.
9. a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

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