Abstinence syndrome
the withdrawal symptoms that occur after abstinence from a drug, especially a narcotic, to which one is addicted.
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the theory that interest is payment for conserving current income.
- Abstinent
forbearance from any indulgence of appet-te, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence. any self-restraint, self-denial, or forbearance. economics. the conserving of current income in order to build up capital or savings. the state of being without a drug, as alcohol or heroin, on which one is dependent. contemporary examples partic-p-nts were divided […]
- Abstr.
. . abstract
- Abstract away from
thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed. theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science. difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations. fine arts. of or relating to the formal aspect of art, […]
- Abstract class
abstract cl-ss programming in object-oriented programming, a cl-ss designed only as a parent from which sub-cl-sses may be derived, but which is not itself suitable for instantiation. often used to “abstract out” incomplete sets of features which may then be shared by a group of sibling sub-cl-sses which add different variations of the missing pieces. […]