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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Absent in mind.
  • Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.
  • art Free from representational qualities.
  • computing Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
  • Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.
  • Difficult to understand; abstruse.
  • logic General (as opposed to particular).
  • obsolete Extracted.

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Noun:

  • An abridgement or summary.
  • An abstract term.
  • art An abstract work of art.
  • medicine A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
  • Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.
  • That which is abstract.

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Verb:

  • intransitive computing To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
  • intransitive rare To perform the process of abstraction.
  • intransitive To withdraw oneself; to retire.
  • transitive art To create artistic abstractions of.
  • transitive (''euphemistic'') To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
  • transitive obsolete To extract by means of distillation.
  • transitive To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.
  • transitive To draw off (interest or attention).
  • transitive To separate; to remove; to take away.
  • transitive To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
  • transitive To withdraw.

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