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  1. adjective Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept.
  2. adjective Not applied or practical; theoretical. See Synonyms at theoretical.
  3. adjective Difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract philosophical problems.
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  • If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper by August 31, according to instructions that will be sent to you.Come and join us in the fall at SVG Open!By Brad Neuberg, Open Web Advocacy Team
  • Testing tells of the crucial week in the life of Karl, showing that morality in the abstract is a lot simpler than morality in the real world. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
  • (The link is to an Economist summary; the abstract is all I can find online so far of the actual study.) wrote about the cross-disciplinary, tightly controlled study of electrosensitivity carried out by an Essex (UK) team with government and industry funding. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Now, I don't have time to access the complete article, but the abstract is available on PubMed, the most awesome collection of medical articles ever given to us fully formed by God on the sixth day of Creation: —  Planet Atheism
  • The objective content of the circulation we have been discussing, is his subjective purpose, and it is only in so far as the appropriation of ever more wealth in the abstract is the sole driving force behind his operations that he functions as a capitalist, i.e. as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will. —  Roughtheory.org
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  1. Middle English, from Latin abstractus, past participle of abstrahere, to draw away : abs-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + trahere, to draw.

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  1. from Latin abstractus, past participle of abstrahere, draw away, from abs, away, + trahere, draw: see track, tract.
  2. from Latin abstractus, past participle of abstrahere: see abstract, v. As a philosophical term, it is a translation of Greek τα\ ἐξἀφαιρέσεως.
 

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