Abstraction is a process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal (real or concrete)...

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

related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This...

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...

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

Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French...

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

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...

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

system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. It is a universal...

leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states:...

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

first abstract watercolor. Untitled (Study for Composition VII, Première abstraction), painted in 1913, is one of the first artworks to emerge from the representational...

In chemistry, hydrogen atom abstraction, or hydrogen atom transfer (HAT), refers to a class of chemical reactions where a hydrogen free radical (a neutral...

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...

Post-painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

The Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software verification Tool (BLAST) is a software model checking tool for C programs. The task addressed by BLAST is the...

Abstraction principle may refer to: Abstraction principle (law) Abstraction principle (computer programming) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

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

post-painterly abstraction. In 1964, Clement Greenberg curated an influential exhibition that traveled the country called post-painterly abstraction. The exhibition...

Abstraction, Porch Shadows, also known as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, is a black and white photograph taken by Paul Strand in...

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

The Soul of the Soulless City, originally titled New York – an Abstraction, is a 1920 painting by the English artist C. R. W. Nevinson. It depicts a fictional...