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1.NounThe act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2.NounThe taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
3.NounRemoval of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
4.NounA separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses."a hermit’s abstraction"
5.NounThe 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."Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species."
6.NounAny 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.NounA member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
8.NounThe act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
9.NounAn idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature."to fight for mere abstractions"
10.NounAbsence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
11.NounAn abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
12.NounA separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
13.NounAn idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
14.NounThe 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.NounThe merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
16.NounHiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such."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."