How to pronounce “abstraction”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
• 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. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
• 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.
• A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
• The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
• An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
• Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation. [First attested in the late 18th century.][1]
• (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects. [First attested in the early 20th century.][2][1]
• (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
• An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
• 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.
• (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
• (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.

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