Abstraction is a process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal (real or concrete)...

Look up abstraction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abstraction is a process or result of generalization, removal of properties, or distancing of...

In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of...

In computing, an abstraction layer or abstraction level is a way of hiding the working details of a subsystem. Examples of software models that use layers...

related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This...

Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French...

Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in software that provide programs with access to hardware resources through programming interfaces. The programming...

system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. Untyped lambda...

Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and...

Abstractionism is the theory that the mind obtains some or all of its concepts by abstracting them from concepts it already has, or from experience. One...