abstraction


abstraction - noun

  • a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
  • the act of withdrawing or removing something
  • the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
  • an abstract painting
  • preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
  • a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

    • abstraction - thesaurus

    abstract   abstractedness   generalisation British English spelling   generalization American English spelling  

    Scrabble score for abstraction

    a is 1 b is 3 s is 1 t is 1 r is 1 a is 1 c is 3 t is 1 i is 1 o is 1 n is 1
    Scrabble score = 15

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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