Gadit
Russian

абстракция

Englishabstraction
Definitions (4)
1nounAn idea or quality thought about on its own, without a specific real-life object in front of you.
Freedom can feel like an abstraction until someone loses it.
For a child, time is often an abstraction.
Justice is not just an abstraction when people are treated unfairly.
2noun(art) A style or image that does not try to show people or things exactly as they look in real life.
The painting moves from landscape into abstraction.
She prefers abstraction to realistic portraiture.
The museum has a whole room devoted to abstraction.
3nounA simplified way of showing the main structure of something while leaving out small details.
A map is an abstraction of real space.
The model is useful because it is an abstraction, not a copy of reality.
In science, an abstraction helps people focus on what matters most.
4noun(computing) A way of hiding complicated inner parts so a person can use a system, program, or tool more simply.
Good software design depends on abstraction.
This button is an abstraction over several hidden processes.
Programming languages use abstraction to make code easier to manage.
Word Origin
Language
Latin
Original word
abstractio
Word parts
ab- (away) + trahere (to draw, pull)
Originally meant
a drawing away, a pulling apart from concrete things
Background
The word came into Russian through the European learned tradition from Latin terms used in philosophy and scholarship. Its basic image is taking something away from the particular object so you can think about the general idea.
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