1) Brief 2) Certain art 3) Conceptional 4) Conceptual 5) Designating some painting 6) Difficult to understand 7) Existing only in the mind 8) Give an abstract 9) Hard to understand 10) Ideal 11) Ideational 12) Impalpable 13) Intangible 14) Kind of painting 15) Like Pollock works 16) Like some art 17) Modern art style
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Generally means simplified instead of detailed. In the context of games, it is an overloaded term which usually means "without theme or story" or "not highly detailed; simple, elegant rules without lots of chrome" but "abstract" also sometimes used to mean "pure strategy (no randomness)" Often used as op...
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[law] In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers. ==Abstract of title== The Abstract of Title, used in real estate transactions, is the more common form of abstract. An abstract of title lists all the owners of a piece of land, a house, or a bu...
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[summary] An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline, and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper`s purpose. When used, an abstract always appears at the beginning of a manuscript or typescript, acting as the ...
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A summary of the resource
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• (a.) Withdraw; separate. • (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. • (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- ...
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(from the article `information processing`) ...The purpose of secondary literature is to `filter` the primary information sources, usually by subject area, and provide the indicators to this ... Two types of documents, indexes and abstracts, contain catalogs and bibliographies of original materials. Indexes include any of coun...
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software engineeringdescriptions that do not swamp you with unnecessary detail -- they provide enough information to use something without knowing its detailed construction.
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Summary, especially of articles, books, or proceedings, as far as possible in the words of the original. Contributors to learned journals are often required to write the abstract of their own...
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1. Withdraw; separate. 'The more abstract . . . We are from the body.' (Norris) ... 2. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. ... 3. <logic> Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart...
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n. it is a brief statement of the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers. Most common usage involves real estate transactions enlisting all the owners of a property before it came into possession of the present owner.
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a written summary of the important points of a medical article.
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A brief summary covering the main points of a written article or research project
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Ab'stract` (#; 277)
adjective [ Latin
abstractus , past participle of
abstrahere to draw from, separate;
ab ,
abs +
trahere to draw. See
Trace .]
1. Withdraw; separate. [ Obsolete] « The more
abstract . . . we are from the body.
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Ab·stract' transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Abstracted ;
present participle & verbal noun Abstracting .] [ See
Abstract ,
adjective ]
1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away. «...
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Ab'stract` noun [ See Abstract , adjective ] 1. That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. « An
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A brief summary of the content of a publication or of a journal
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Abstract means theoretical rather than practical.
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Art which departs from real subjects and representational accuracy in preference to shapes, colour and texture. This form of Scottish Art is sometimes referred to as non-representational art.
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In the photographic sense, an image that is conceived apart from concrete reality, generally emphasizing lines, colours and geometrical forms, and their relationship to one another.
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abstract (s), abstracts (pl) 1. Not concrete; not relating to concrete objects but expressing something that can only be appreciated intellectually. 2. Not easy to understand; based on general principles or theories rather than on specific instances. 3. A brief statement of the essential thoughts of a book, article, speech, court record, etc...
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abstractionist adjective not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; `a large abstract painting`
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(Lat. ab, from + trahere, to draw) A designation applied to a partial aspect or quality considered in isolation from a total object, which is, in contrast, designated concrete. -- L.W.
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thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea. · expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed. · theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science. · difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculatio...
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[SAT terms] existing only in the mind
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