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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