abstracted
verb
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To separate; to disengage.
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To remove; to take away; withdraw.
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To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
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To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
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To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
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To extract by means of distillation.
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To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
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To withdraw oneself; to retire.
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To draw off (interest or attention).
“He was wholly abstracted by other objects.”
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To perform the process of abstraction.
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To create abstractions.
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To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
“He abstracted out the square root function.”
adjective
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Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
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Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
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Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
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Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
“...an abstracted scholar...”
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