An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
A concentrated essence or powdered solid extract of a product or medicinal substance.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Separate, remove, steal, draw off interest or attention, or withdraw oneself.
(transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
(obsolete) Derived; extracted.
(now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
An adjective "abstract" refers to something that is not concrete, factual, practical, or applied, but rather conceptual, ideal, vague, theoretical, impersonal, and intangible.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
An adjective "abstract" refers to the formal aspect of art, the non-representational styles of the 20th century, absolute music, and dance lacking a story.
(object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.