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Definition of Abstract
Ab`stract´ Pronunciation: #; 277 | a. | 1. | Withdraw; separate. | | 2. | 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. | | 3. | (Logic) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; - opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. | | 4. | Abstracted; absent in mind. | | v. t. | 1. | To withdraw; to separate; to take away. | | 2. | To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. | | 3. | To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. | | 4. | To epitomize; to abridge. | | 5. | To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. | | 6. | (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used. | | 1. | To perform the process of abstraction. | | n. | 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. | | 2. | A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. | | 3. | An abstract term. | | 4. | (Med.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. |
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