abstracted

/ษ™b.หˆstษนรฆk.tษชd/

IPA: /AE1 B S T R AE0 K T IH0 D/

verb
  1. 1

    To separate; to disengage.

  2. 2

    To remove; to take away; withdraw.

  3. 3

    To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.

  4. 4

    To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.

  5. 5

    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.

  6. 6

    To extract by means of distillation.

  7. 7

    To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

  8. 8

    To withdraw oneself; to retire.

  9. 9

    To draw off (interest or attention).

    โ€œHe was wholly abstracted by other objects.โ€

  10. 10

    To perform the process of abstraction.

  11. 11

    To create abstractions.

  12. 12

    To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".

    โ€œHe abstracted out the square root function.โ€

adjective
  1. 1

    Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

  2. 2

    Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.

  3. 3

    Abstract; abstruse; difficult.

  4. 4

    Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.

    โ€œ...an abstracted scholar...โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstract, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstracted