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The document defines the word "abstract" and provides several meanings: 1) Removed or separated from a specific example. Difficult to understand or insufficiently factual. 2) Expressing a quality apart from a physical object. 3) Dealing with a subject in its intrinsic or theoretical aspects. Impersonal and detached. 4) Having only intrinsic form with little attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content, such as abstract painting.

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Abstract

The document defines the word "abstract" and provides several meanings: 1) Removed or separated from a specific example. Difficult to understand or insufficiently factual. 2) Expressing a quality apart from a physical object. 3) Dealing with a subject in its intrinsic or theoretical aspects. Impersonal and detached. 4) Having only intrinsic form with little attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content, such as abstract painting.

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Main Entry: 1abstract

Pronunciation: ab-'strakt, 'ab-,


Function: adjective
Etymology: Mcdicval Latin abstractus, from Latin, ast articilc of abstrahere to drag
away, from abs-, ab- + trahere to ull, draw
Datc: 14th ccntury
1 a : disassociatcd from any sccific instancc _an abstract cntity; b : difficult to undcrstand :
ABSTRUSE _abstract roblcms; c : insufficicntly factual : FORMAL _osscsscd only an abstract
right;
2 : cxrcssing a quality aart from an ob}cct _thc word poem is concrctc, poetry is abstract;
3 a : dcaling with a sub}cct in its abstract asccts : THEORETICAL _abstract scicncc; b :
IMPERSONAL, DETACHED _thc abstract comassion of a surgcon - Time;
4 : having only intrinsic form with littlc or no attcmt at ictorial rcrcscntation or narrativc
contcnt _abstract ainting;
-abstractly \ab-'strak(t)-lc, 'ab-,\ adverb
-abstractness \ab-'strak(t)-ns, 'ab-,\ noun
2003 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

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