ABSTRACTION
\ɐbstɹˈakʃən], \ɐbstɹˈakʃən], \ɐ_b_s_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ABSTRACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
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an abstract painting
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the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
By Princeton University
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preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
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an abstract painting
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the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
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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.
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An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
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A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
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Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
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The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
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A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
By Oddity Software
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The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
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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.
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An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
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A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
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Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
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The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
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A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
By Noah Webster.
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Withdrawal, as of the mind from any object, or a quality from a thing of which it is a part; absence of mind; dishonest removal; theft; something unreal.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of abstracting: state of being abstracted, absence of mind: the operation of the mind by which certain qualities or attributes of an object are considered apart from the rest: a purloining.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. Act of abstracting or separating, or the state of being separated;—act or process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object, so as to attend to others; analysis;—an idea or notion of a theoretical nature;—a separation from worldly objects; a recluse life ;— absence of mind ; inattention to present objects ;—the taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another.
By Thomas Sheridan
