abstract : Idioms & Phrases


AbstractPure mathematics

  • . See Mathematics.
Webster 1913

abstract art

  • noun an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
    abstractionism.
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abstract artist

  • noun a painter of abstract pictures
    abstractionist.
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abstract entity

  • noun a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
    abstraction.
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abstract expressionism

  • noun a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
    action painting.
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Abstract numbers

  • (Math.), numbers used without application to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as 6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete.
Webster 1913

Abstract of title

  • (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.
Webster 1913

Abstract terms

  • those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities.
Webster 1913

abstract thought

  • noun thinking that is coherent and logical
    logical thinking; reasoning.
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An abstract idea

  • (Metaph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure.
Webster 1913