Abstract

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Look up abstract and abstraction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Abstract may mean:

  • Abstract (law), a brief statement of the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers
  • Abstract (summary), an abbreviated summary of any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline
  • Abstract art, art that does not depict objects in the natural world
  • Abstract class (see Abstract and Concrete classes), a class in object-oriented programming that is designed only as a parent class and from which child classes may be derived, and which is not itself suitable for instantiation
  • Abstract hip hop, a subgenre of alternative hip hop distinguished principally on the content of the lyrics
  • Abstract music a disambiguation page
  • Abstract structure, a set of rules, properties and relationships that is defined independently of any physical objects


Abstraction, a related term, may mean:

  • Abstraction, the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects
  • Abstraction (computer science), a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on few concepts at a time
  • Abstraction (mathematics), the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects
  • Abstraction (sociology), the varying levels at which theoretical concepts can be understood
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