abstraction
pronunciation
How to pronounce abstraction in British English:
UK [æbˈstrækʃn]
How to pronounce abstraction in American English:
US [æbˈstrækʃn]
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- Noun:
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
Word Origin
- abstraction (n.)
- c. 1400, "a withdrawal from worldly affairs, asceticism," from Old French abstraction (14c.), from Latin abstractionem (nominative abstractio), noun of action from past participle stem of abstrahere "drag away, pull away, divert" (see abstract (adj.)). Meaning "idea of something that has no actual existence" is from 1640s.
Synonym
absorption brown distraction inattentiveness study reverie engrossment aloofness raptness daydreaming self-communing preoccupation absent-mindedness thoughtfulness pensiveness musing inattention
Example
- 1. Simple hash key gives dynamodb the distributed hash table abstraction .
- 2. It 's a very difficult and complex image , masquerading as a simple abstraction .
- 3. The real question is , how far up the ladder of abstraction will parallelism go ?
- 4. Hazelwood 's approach contradicts one of the most important notions in computer programming -- abstraction .
- 5. When did the country of 1.3 billion begin wrestling with such an amorphous abstraction ?