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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. […]
- Abstract data type
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- Abstract language
noun vocabulary that signifies a concept, quality, or abstract idea examples examples of abstract language include love, success, freedom, good. historical examples not by a surgical operation; much less by the use of a foreign language or—what is quite the same thing—of abstract language. picture-work walter l. (walter lowrie) hervey
- Abstract interpretation
abstract interpretation theory a partial execution of a program which gains information about its semantics (e.g. control structure, flow of information) without performing all the calculations. abstract interpretation is typically used by compilers to -n-lyse programs in order to decide whether certain optimisations or transformations are applicable. the objects manipulated by the program (typically values […]