abstraction

From: A Dictionary of Geography | Date: 2004| Author: | Copyright information

abstraction The selection and conceptualization of a phenomenon, or some aspect of it. Abstraction is an essential part of model building where some aspect or part of the real world is extracted and simplified. Unfortunately, during the process of simplification, so much information has to ...

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