Abstraction is the process of generalizing rules and concepts from specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers, first principles, or other methods.

From its roots, abstraction should mean basically "something pulled or drawn away". So abstract art is art that has moved away from painting objects of the ordinary physical world in order to …

ABSTRACTION definition: 1. the quality of existing as or representing an idea, a feeling, etc. and not a material object…. Learn more.

abstraction, the cognitive process of isolating, or “abstracting,” a common feature or relationship observed in a number of things, or the product of such a process.

Abstraction definition: an abstract or general idea or term.. See examples of ABSTRACTION used in a sentence.

An abstraction is a general idea rather than one relating to a particular object, person, or situation.

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