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Abstraction
"Abstraction" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The integration of our global economy has made life better for billions of men, women and children. Over the last 25 years, the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut from nearly 40 percent of humanity to under 10 percent. That's unprecedented. And it's not an abstraction. It means children have enough to eat; mothers don’t die in childbirth.
The use of abstraction in computer programming allows us to create and understand the behavior of very complex software.
This is an example of abstraction.
The exhibit is organized chronologically to show the artist's evolution into abstraction starting in the 1920s.
It has been said that the principal utility of abstraction is as an instrument in ratiocination.
It's a metaphysical abstraction.
This whole matter is a mere abstraction for you.
Essentially not a "groupthink" idea, each individual really has his or her own religion. Even though the person may belong to an organized religion, which is really a human idealized abstraction, the person has her or his own views about it. So, religion is essentially individualized.
57 is known at the "Grothendieck prime": aside from itself and 1, it is also divisible by 3 and 19 and hence not prime at all, but as the story goes, the famous mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, whose name represents an even higher level of abstraction than the already abstract, is said to have given it as a (mistaken) concrete example, which is shocking coming from such a prominent mathematician. It shows how very little he cared for the concrete.
The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
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a hermit’s abstraction
Holonym: induction
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
to fight for mere abstractions
"One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
At one point, her spidery abstractions gave way to a series of abruptly syncopated hits, like a deranged allusion to the Thelonious Monk tune “Evidence.”
Files are an abstraction provided by the file system for storing data, so that applications do not have to care how that data is stored.
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