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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abstraction/abˈstrakʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the quality or process of treating something in a theoretical way.
■ something which exists only as an idea.
- 2 a state of preoccupation.
- 3 abstract qualities in art.
- 4 the process of abstracting something.
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