abstraction

Etymology
From ; either from or from, from. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
 * 2)  The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
 * 3)  Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
 * 4) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7) A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
 * 8) The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
 * 9) An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
 * 10) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
 * 11)  An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
 * 12)  A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
 * 13) An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
 * 14) 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.
 * 15)  The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
 * 16)  Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
 * 1)  An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
 * 2)  A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
 * 3) An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5)  The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
 * 6)  Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
 * 1)  Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:generalization

Antonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:specialization

Translations

 * Amharic: ረቂቅነት
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: astraición, astracción
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: abstraktion
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:, üldistus, hajameelsus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აბსტრაგირება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अमूर्तन, भावानयन,, अमूर्तीकरण, सारग्रहण, संक्षिप्तीकरण, अपाहरण
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: abstraction
 * Irish: teibiú
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: абстракция
 * Latvian: abstrakcija
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: abstraksjon
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kabasalan
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük: dezugam, dezugot
 * Yiddish: אַבסטראַקציע


 * Dutch:, toeëigening
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, naske, tæsje, rane, røve


 * Dutch: vage voorstelling, visionair begrip
 * Esperanto: abstraktaĵo
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Irish:

Etymology
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