abstraction

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ab·strac·tion / abˈstrakshən/ • n. 1. the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events. ∎  something that exists only as an idea.2. freedom from representational qualities in art.3. a state of preoccupation: his momentary abstraction.4. the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments: they tend to interpret Jesus's words in abstraction from any historical context.5. the process of removing something, esp. water from a river or other source.

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