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noun

abstraction

CEFR C1

a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

In a sentence

Six example sentences with abstraction, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her later canvases move toward abstraction, keeping the color of the harbor while dropping the boats entirely.

    Art

  • A good abstraction hides the disk entirely, so the programmer writes to a file without knowing which machine stores it.

    Technology

  • Justice remains an abstraction until you ask what it requires of the judge sitting in front of an actual defendant.

    Philosophy

  • The average consumer is an abstraction; no actual household buys exactly the basket that the inflation index tracks.

    Economics

  • A frictionless surface is an abstraction, but working the problem with one first makes the messy real version tractable.

    Science

  • The reasonable person is a legal abstraction, a standard no juror has ever met in the flesh but every jury applies.

    Law

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