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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesabstraction
/æbˈstrækʃən/Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events; something that exists only as an idea.
"Numbers are abstractions used to quantify the physical world."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Late Middle English: from Latin abstractio(n-), from the verb abstrahere 'draw away'.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "abstraction" is said worldwide
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abstraction
Transliteration: abstraction
"L'amour est une abstraction difficile à définir."
Abstraktion
Transliteration: Abstraktion
"Mathematik basiert auf ständiger Abstraktion."
astrazione
Transliteration: astrazione
"Il concetto di giustizia è un'astrazione."
abstracción
Transliteration: abstracción
"El arte moderno a menudo se basa en la abstracción."
abstração
Transliteration: abstração
"A liberdade é uma abstração complexa."
अमूर्तन
Transliteration: amūrtan
"गणित विचारों के अमूर्तन पर आधारित है।"
抽象
Transliteration: chōuxiàng
"艺术中的抽象常常很难被大众理解。"
추상
Transliteration: chusang
"그 화가의 작품은 순수한 추상을 표현합니다."
抽出
Transliteration: chūshutsu
"この概念の抽象化は非常に難しい。"
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