Abstraction is a process where general rules and concepts are derived from the use and classifying of specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers...

Look up abstraction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abstraction is a process or result of generalization, removal of properties, or distancing of...

In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of...

Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in software that provide programs with access to hardware resources through programming interfaces. The programming...

In computing, an abstraction layer or abstraction level is a way of hiding the working details of a subsystem. Examples of software models that use layers...

intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This...

λ-calculus) is a formal system for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. Untyped lambda...

Abstractionism is the theory that the mind obtains some or all of its concepts by abstracting them from concepts it already has, or from experience. One...

repetition of information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids...

Nucleophilic abstraction is a type of an organometallic reaction which can be defined as a nucleophilic attack on a ligand which causes part or all of...

engineering and programming language theory, the abstraction principle (or the principle of abstraction) is a basic dictum that aims to reduce duplication...

Hypostatic abstraction in philosophy and mathematical logic, also known as hypostasis or subjectal abstraction, is a formal operation that transforms...

A leaky abstraction in software development refers to a design flaw where an abstraction, intended to simplify and hide the underlying complexity of a...

Typically, abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym for abstract art in general. Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal...

Lyrical abstraction arose from either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique: a movement that...

Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and...

Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying structures, patterns or properties of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence...

Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century or Elles font l'abstraction. Une autre histoire de l'abstraction au XXe siècle...

In computer programming, abstraction inversion is an anti-pattern arising when users of a construct need functions implemented within it but not exposed...

In computer science, metalinguistic abstraction is the process of solving complex problems by creating a new language or vocabulary to better understand...

A database abstraction layer (DBAL or DAL) is an application programming interface which unifies the communication between a computer application and...

Abstraction-Création was a loose association of artists formed in Paris in 1931 to counteract the influence of the Surrealist group led by André Breton...

In logic, predicate abstraction is the result of creating a predicate from a formula. If Q is any formula then the predicate abstract formed from that...

Geometric abstraction began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant-garde circles. Greenberg became the voice of Post-painterly abstraction; by curating...

Presentation–abstraction–control (PAC) is a software architectural pattern. It is an interaction-oriented software architecture, and is somewhat similar...

The term abstraction has a number of uses in the field of linguistics. It can denote a process (also called object abstraction) in the development of...

Objective abstraction was a British art group or movement c. 1933–1936, taking its name from the "Objective Abstractions" exhibition of 1934. It is a misnomer...

Sociological abstraction refers to the varying levels at which theoretical concepts can be understood. It is a tool for objectifying and simplifying sociological...

Organic Abstraction is an artistic style characterized by "the use of rounded or wavy abstract forms based on what one finds in nature." It takes its...

An operating system abstraction layer (OSAL) provides an application programming interface (API) to an abstract operating system making it easier and...