abstraction
IPA: æbstrˈækʃʌn
noun
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- 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.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (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) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
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Examples of "abstraction" in Sentences
- A perceivable world is an abstraction.
- The Internet is an intangible abstraction.
- Taking this sort of thing to abstraction is their job.
- Every level of abstraction is accurate, new, useful, and nonobvious.
- If levels of abstraction is about an economic quid pro quo, then litigants can supply relevant information: the economic effects/incentives of patent.
- Boundaries are ubiquitous, and I am convinced the ability to detect boundaries/edges at ever higher levels of abstraction is the key to real fluid intelligence and concept formation.
- Dewey continues: "The reference to" in us "is as much an abstraction from the total experience, as on the other side it would be to resolve the picture into mere aggregations of molecules and atoms."
- Under the rubric of water resource development, dam building and river fragmentation are the main factors threatening biodiversity, while water abstraction is the main threat to human water security.