abstraction

  • 81abstraction — noun 1 (C) a general idea about a type of situation, thing, or person, rather than a specific example from real life: talking in abstractions 2 (U) a state in which you do not notice what is happening around you because you are thinking carefully …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 82abstraction — n 1. generality, concept, conception, idea, notion, presumption, supposition, hypothesis, theory; quixoticism, visionary notion, impractical notion, vague representation, daydream, pipe dream. 2. disconnection, isolation, disjunction, partial… …

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  • 83abstraction — ab·strac·tion …

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  • 84abstraction — ab•strac•tion [[t]æbˈstræk ʃən[/t]] n. 1) an abstract or general idea or term 2) the act of considering something in terms of general qualities, apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances 3) absent mindedness;… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 85abstraction — A taking; a removal, especially a wrongful taking or removal. Under the National Bank Act, the act of one who, being an officer of a national banking association, wrongfully takes or withdraws from it an of its moneys, funds, or credits, with… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 86Abstraction —    см. Абстракция …

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  • 87Synchrony abstraction — Abstraction of Synchrony is the proposed ability to generically call a Service/Operation without regard to whether the target service is configured as a Synchronous or Asynchronous protocol. The user may then call all services and expect a reply… …

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  • 88Abstraction-création — ► BELLAS ARTES Grupo formado en París en 1931 con el fin de defender y desarrollar el lenguaje abstracto, frente a las tendencias figurativas que se iban afirmando entre 1931 y 1937. Los artistas más representativos del grupo son los siguientes:… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 89Abstraction-Creation Group —    An international school of painters and sculptors of the 1930s, who typically employed geometric shapes and forms. Piet Mondrian was the most prominent figure in the Abstract Creation Group. Also see Bauhaus and De Stijl …

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  • 90Lyrical Abstraction — refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post war Modernist painting. European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II. At that time, France was trying to reconstruct its identity devastated by… …

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