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" I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic."
Kate Bernheimer

Meaning of "abstraction" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ABSTRACTION

æbˈstrækʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ABSTRACTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Abstraction is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ABSTRACTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Abstraction

Abstraction is a process by which concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal concepts, first principles, or other methods. "An abstraction" is the product of this process—a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts, and connects any related concepts as a group, field, or category. Abstractions may be formed by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a leather soccer ball to the more general idea of a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behavior, eliminating the other characteristics of that particular ball.

Definition of abstraction in the English dictionary

The first definition of abstraction in the dictionary is absence of mind; preoccupation. Other definition of abstraction is the process of formulating generalized ideas or concepts by extracting common qualities from specific examples. Abstraction is also an idea or concept formulated in this way.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ABSTRACTION

action · attraction · contraction · counterattraction · detraction · diffraction · distraction · extraction · fraction · infraction · overextraction · protraction · reaction · refraction · retraction · satisfaction · semiabstraction · substraction · subtraction · traction

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ABSTRACTION

abstract · abstract expressionism · abstract noun · abstract of accounts · abstract of title · abstractable · abstracted · abstractedly · abstractedness · abstracter · abstractional · abstractionism · abstractionist · abstractive · abstractively · abstractly · abstractness · abstractor · abstrict · abstriction

WORDS THAT END LIKE ABSTRACTION

accreditation · auction · collection · connection · construction · correction · course of action · detection · direction · election · fiction · function · inspection · instruction · interaction · introduction · out of action · production · protection · section · selection

Synonyms and antonyms of abstraction in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ABSTRACTION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «abstraction» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «abstraction» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ABSTRACTION

Find out the translation of abstraction to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of abstraction from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «abstraction» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

抽象概念
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

abstracción
570 millions of speakers
en

English

abstraction
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अमूर्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التجريد
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

абстракция
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

abstração
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বিমূর্তন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

abstraction
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Abstraksi
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Abstraktum
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

抽象概念
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

추상적 개념
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Abstraksi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trừu tượng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சாராம்சம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अदृश्य
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

soyutlama
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

astrazione
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

abstrakcja
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

абстракція
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

abstractizare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφαίρεση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onttrekking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

abstraktion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

abstraksjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of abstraction

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ABSTRACTION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of abstraction
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «abstraction».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about abstraction

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10 QUOTES WITH «ABSTRACTION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word abstraction.
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Josef Albers
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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Bernard Beckett
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
3
Kate Bernheimer
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
4
Max Bill
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
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Alexander Calder
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
6
Daniel Clowes
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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Lily Cole
I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.
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Auguste Comte
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Alfonso Cuaron
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.
10
Jeffrey Deitch
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSTRACTION»

Discover the use of abstraction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to abstraction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed ...
This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s.
Leah Dickerman, 2012
2
3 X Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing, Hilma Af Klint, ...
An engaging look at three women artists' pathbreaking explorationof abstraction
M. Catherine de Zegher, Hendel Teicher, Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.), 2005
3
Data Structures: Abstraction and Design Using Java
This book lays the foundation for programmers to build their skills.
Elliot B. Koffman, Paul A. T. Wolfgang, 2010
4
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of ...
Worringer's classic study argues that in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to abstract objects from their unpredictable state and transform them into absolute, transcendental forms.
Wilhelm Worringer, 1997
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Abstraction in Art and Nature
Nathan Cabot Hale. movement (Figs. 103, 104, and 105). These patterns in turn offer resistance to the water's flow and increase the movement of the water, causing surface ripples. Rivers and streams run in sinuous, meandering curves and ...
Nathan Cabot Hale, 2012
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Computational Visualization: Graphics, Abstraction, and ...
Abstraction entails the visually satisfactory refinement of resized images based on geometric models, approached in this book as an interactive exploration of complex "information spaces.
Thomas Strothotte, 1998
7
Generating Abstraction Hierarchies: An Automated Approach to ...
Generating Abstraction Hierarchies presents a completely automated approach to generating abstractions for problem solving.
Craig Knoblock, 1993
8
Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The ...
Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational ...
Charles Altieri, 1989
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Abstraction and Transcendence: Nature, Shintai, and Geometry ...
This thesis introduces Tadao Ando, a well-known Japanese architect, who is currently working on an emerging concept in the discourse of architecture, and is opening an approach of high sensibility (sensual, reflective, flexible, and complex ...
Pham Thanh Hien, 1998
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Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and ...
Written by a world-renowned expert on programming methodology, and the winner of the 2008 Turing Award, this book shows how to build production-quality programs--programs that are reliable, easy to maintain, and quick to modify.
Barbara Liskov, John Guttag, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABSTRACTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term abstraction is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Lynchian Overtones of True Detective S2
What's notable about Lynch's use of industrial imagery, however, is that it's usually not particularly plot-oriented; he turns it into an abstraction ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
2
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: A call to courage
Evil is not merely an abstraction, something that we read about in the Bible, but it does actually exist in this world. Hate crimes are not just about ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
3
Through fiction, veterans present a clearer truth on US wars
Our never-ending conflicts are in danger of becoming an abstraction to many civilians — even though we still have almost 10,000 troops in ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Mary Heilmann and David Reed Join Forces at the Hamburger …
Both artists have been important to an idea of New York painting since the 1970s — one that operates between figuration and abstraction and ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
5
Curing the South's Confederate PTSD
... the longstanding texture of face-to-face, lived race relations (as opposed to the collective political abstraction), which is possibly even more ... «Scholars and Rogues, Jul 15»
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Stanley Whitney in the 1990s
Van Gogh freed line from description, which appealed to Whitney for a number of reasons, including his love of abstraction. In the small oils and ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
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Ectovoid Premieres New Track "Mental Netherworlds"
Ectovoid premieres a new track titled "Mental Netherworlds" taken from the new full-length release "Dark Abstraction", care of Hellthrasher ... «Metal Underground, Jul 15»
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Gallery: Art is an expression of freedom
... "Artists of the River" exhibit, which includes widely diverse work: different media, different levels of abstraction and different work processes. «CapitalGazette.com, Jul 15»
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Puppy gives son-in-law a new leash on life
Back then, he was single, still focused on his professional training, and interested in babies as an abstraction. Two-and-a-half years later he ... «Burlington County Times, Jul 15»
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Susan Roth at Everson in Syracuse
Hers has been a two-way collaboration: Golden materials have allowed her to push the boundaries of abstraction, while her experimentation ... «ithaca.com, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Abstraction [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/abstraction>. May 2024 ».
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