(art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
(computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
(computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
(engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
(euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
(geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
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.
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
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.
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.
abstriction
abstriction
noun
(biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
baronetcies
baronetcies
noun
plural of baronetcy
buccinators
buccinators
noun
plural of buccinator
carbonarist
combinators
combinators
noun
plural of combinator
corybantish
craniotabes
craniotabes
noun
(medicine) The medical finding of a softening or thinning of the skull.
obscurantic
obscurantic
adj
Employing obscurantism.
obscuration
obscuration
noun
A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.
The state of being obscured.
obsecrating
obsecrating
verb
present participle of obsecrate
obsecration
obsecration
noun
An earnest supplication made in the name of God
subfraction
subfraction
noun
The result of fractionating a fraction into smaller components
subnarcotic
subnarcotic
adj
(medicine) Moderately narcotic.
subtraction
subtraction
noun
(arithmetic, countable) A calculation involving subtracting.
(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.
