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We found 42 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word abstraction: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "abstraction" is defined. General (28 matching dictionaries) abstraction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] abstraction: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Vocabulary.com [home, info] abstraction: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Abstraction, abstraction: Wordnik [home, info] abstraction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Wiktionary [home, info] abstraction: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] abstraction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] abstraction: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Abstraction, abstraction: Dictionary.com [home, info] abstraction: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] Abstraction (computer programming), Abstraction (computer science), Abstraction (disambiguation), Abstraction (mathematics), Abstraction (philosophy), Abstraction (programming), Abstraction (sociology), Abstraction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Abstraction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] abstraction: Rhymezone [home, info] Abstraction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Free Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] abstraction: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] abstraction: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] abstraction: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] abstraction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) abstraction: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names [home, info] Abstraction: art glossary [home, info] Business (2 matching dictionaries) abstraction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info] Abstraction (philosophy), abstraction: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (4 matching dictionaries) abstraction: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info] abstraction: Webopedia [home, info] Abstraction: Technopedia [home, info] Abstraction (computer science), Abstraction (philosophy), abstraction: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (2 matching dictionaries) abstraction: online medical dictionary [home, info] Abstraction (philosophy), abstraction: Medical dictionary [home, info] Religion (1 matching dictionary) ABSTRACTION: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] Science (2 matching dictionaries) abstraction: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY [home, info] abstraction: FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info] Tech (1 matching dictionary) abstraction: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (abstraction) ▸ noun:  a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples ▸ noun:  the act of withdrawing or removing something ▸ noun:  an abstract painting ▸ noun:  the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances ▸ noun:  a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance ▸ noun:  preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else