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abstraction

English

  1. 🔊 a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
  2. 🔊 the act of withdrawing or removing something
  3. 🔊 an abstract painting
  4. 🔊 the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
  5. 🔊 a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
    “he loved her only in the abstract--not in person”
  6. 🔊 preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else

Spanish

  1. 🔊 abstracción abstraction

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