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

In Abstraction is the 4th studio album by the American band A Hope for Home. It was released on December 6, 2011, through Facedown Records. All lyrics...

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

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...

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...

but perhaps not identical, meanings. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation...

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

In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by Joel Spolsky, the...

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

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

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...

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

change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids redundancy in the first place. The DRY...

written as λ-calculus) is a formal system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding...

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

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 depiction...

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

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

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 of Art in 1964...

nucleophile. While nucleophilic abstraction of an alkyl group is relatively uncommon, there are examples of this type of reaction. In order for this reaction...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Look up humanity or humanities in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Humanity most commonly refers to: Human, also humankind Humanity (virtue) Humanity may...

Abstraction, is a 1920 painting by the English artist C. R. W. Nevinson. It depicts a fictional part of the elevated railway in Manhattan, painted in...

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...

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