abs

/æbz/

noun

1
(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
2
To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
3
To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
4
To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
5
To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
6
To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
7
To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
8
To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
9
To terminate a process prior to completion.

1
Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.

1
Derived; extracted.
2
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
3
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
4
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
5
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
6
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.
7
Absent-minded.
8
Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
9
Insufficiently factual.
10
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
11
(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
12
Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

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