abstraction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
chemistry
computing
engineering
geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from Medieval Latin abstrāctiō (“separation”), from Latin abstrahō (“draw away”). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.
Base: abstract
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: abstractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
gloss: The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
gloss: The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a hermit’s abstraction
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonym: induction
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to fight for mere abstractions
gloss: Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
gloss: An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”
gloss: A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Files are an abstraction provided by the file system for storing data, so that applications do not have to care how that data is stored.
Antonyms: specialization
concretization
Related words: abstract
Derived words: abstractional
abstractionism
abstractionist
abstractionistic
abstractive
eccentric abstraction
lambda abstraction
leaky abstraction
semiabstraction
Translations:
lang: Amharic
word: ረቂቅነት
roman: räḳiḳnät
lang: Armenian
word: աբստրահում
roman: abstrahum
lang: Asturian
word: astraición
lang: Asturian
word: astracción
lang: Bulgarian
word: абстра́кция
roman: abstrákcija
lang: Bulgarian
word: отвлеченост
roman: otvléčenost
lang: Catalan
word: abstracció
lang: Danish
word: abstraktion
lang: Dutch
word: abstractie
lang: Esperanto
word: abstrakto
lang: Estonian
word: abstraktsioon
lang: Estonian
word: üldistus
lang: Estonian
word: hajameelsus
lang: Finnish
word: abstrahointi
lang: French
word: abstraction
lang: Galician
word: abstracción
lang: Georgian
word: აბსტრაგირება
roman: absṭragireba
lang: German
word: Abstraktion
lang: Greek
word: αφαίρεση
roman: afaíresi
lang: Hebrew
word: הפשטה
roman: hafshat'a
lang: Hindi
word: अमूर्तन
roman: amūrtan
lang: Hindi
word: भावानयन
roman: bhāvānyan
lang: Hindi
word: निष्कर्षण
roman: niṣkarṣaṇ
lang: Hindi
word: अमूर्तीकरण
roman: amūrtīkraṇ
lang: Hindi
word: सारग्रहण
roman: sāragrahaṇ
lang: Hindi
word: संक्षिप्तीकरण
roman: saṅkṣiptīkraṇ
lang: Hindi
word: अपाहरण
roman: apāhraṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: absztrakció
lang: Hungarian
word: elvonatkoztatás
lang: Interlingua
word: abstraction
lang: Irish
word: teibiú
lang: Italian
word: astrazione
lang: Kazakh
word: абстракция
roman: abstraksiä
lang: Latvian
word: abstrakcija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: abstraksjon
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: abstrahering
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: abstraksjon
lang: Occitan
word: abstraccion
lang: Persian
word: انتزاعیدن
lang: Polish
word: abstrakcja
lang: Portuguese
word: abstração
lang: Romanian
word: abstracție
lang: Russian
word: абстра́кция
roman: abstrákcija
lang: Spanish
word: abstracción
lang: Tagalog
word: kabasalan
lang: Turkish
word: soyutlama
lang: Turkish
word: abstraksiyon
lang: Volapük
word: dezugam
lang: Volapük
word: dezugot
lang: Yiddish
word: אַבסטראַקציע
roman: abstraktsye