abstracting

Meaning

of Abstract

Examples

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin

The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction. Hilary Putnam

Science can function only by abstracting from the reality in which the scientist has his being. In spite of the astonishing complications it discovers, with which it dazzles and almost blinds us, science is compelled by its own terms of reference to be a drastic simplification. J. B. Priestley

A person caught tapping could be charged with ' abstracting electricity ' from the General Post Office and several cases were prosecuted under this offence. Source: Internet

By abstracting access, it facilitates cross-platform data exchange. citation A server may receive requests from many different clients in a very short period of time. Source: Internet

However, in the secondary sense of the term 'abstraction', this physical object can carry materially abstracting processes. Source: Internet

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