| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To remove, extract, deprive, subtract or withdraw.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To steal, snatch, filch, thieve or plunder. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To resume, recap, summarize, epitomize or summarise. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To escape or avoid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To draw, elicit, pull, derive or pluck. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To abbreviate, shorten, curtail or condense. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To lift or hoist. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To decrease, abate or lessen. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To take or unpick.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb abstract.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (abstractly) | 1. In abstract terms.[Wordnet]. 2. In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.[Websters]. 3. In a brief, concise, short, compendious or succinct manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an academic, theoretical or theoretic manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a recondite, vague or indistinct manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a speculative, notional, nonrepresentational or doctrinaire manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a terse or compact manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an ideal or conceptual manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a metaphysical or transcendental manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective abstract.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (abstract) | 1. Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.[Wordnet]. 2. Make off with belongings of others.[Wordnet]. 3. Consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example".[Wordnet]. 4. Give an abstract (of).[Wordnet]. 5. To perform the process of abstraction.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: abstracting, abstracted, abstracts, abstractor, abstractors, abstractingly and abstractedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ABSTRACTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ABSTRACTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Economics | The process of collecting together prices of work of same sort having the same unit of price and measurement. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Publishing & Graphic Arts | The act of preparing abstracts. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | The preparation of a brief, objective statement (abstract) of the content of a written work, to enable the researcher to quickly determine whether reading the entire text might satisfy the specific information need. Abstracting is usually limited to the literature of a specific discipline or group of related disciplines, and is performed by an individual or commercial entity, such as an indexing and abstracting service, that provides abstracts regularly to a list of subscribers. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: abstract
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Abstract (summary) | An abstract is an abbreviated summary of a research article, review, or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline, and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper’s purpose. When used, an abstract always appears at the beginning of a manuscript, acting as the point-of-entry for any given scientific paper or patent application. (references) | ||
| Abstract analytic number theory | Abstract analytic number theory is a branch of mathematics which takes the ideas and techniques of classical analytic number theory and applies them to a variety of different mathematical fields. The classical prime number theorem serves as a prototypical example, and the emphasis is on abstract asymptotic distribution results. The theory was invented and developed by John Knopfmacher in the early 1970s. (references) | ||
| Abstract art | An abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Abstract artist | A painter of abstract pictures. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Abstract data structure | In theoretical computer science, an abstract data structure is an abstract storage for data defined in terms of the set of operations to be performed on data and computational complexity for performing these operations, regardless the implementation in a concrete data structure. (references) | ||
| Abstract entity | A general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Abstract Expressionism | A New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Abstract Head | Abstract Head (1929) by Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian expressionist. (references) | ||
| Abstract Imagists | Abstract Imagists is a term derived from a 1961 exhibition in the Guggenheim Museum, New York called American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists - it refers to those who have largely non-gestural impersonal works of Abstract expressionists. A signature of the style is large areas of paint - as opposed to a more vigorous engagement by the artist. (references) | ||
| Abstract index notation | Abstract index notation is a mathematical notation for tensors and spinors, which uses indices to indicate their type. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ABSTRACTING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Abstracting and Indexing | Health | Shortening or summarizing of documents; assigning of descriptors for referencing documents. (references) | |
| Abstracting journal | Art | A journal that specializes in providing summaries (called abstracts) of articles and other documents published within the scope of a specific academic discipline or field of study (example: Peace Research Abstracts Journal). Compare with abstracting service. (references) | |
| Abstracting service | Art | A commercial indexing service that provides both a citation and a brief summary or abstract of the content of each document indexed (example: Information Science Abstracts). Numbered consecutively in order of addition, entries are issued serially in print, usually in monthly or quarterly supplements, or in a regularly updated bibliographic database available by subscription. Abstracting services can be comprehensive or selective within a specific academic discipline or subdiscipline. Compare with abstracting journal. (references) | |
| World machine-readable inventory of abstracting and indexing services | Information | Joint FID/NFAIS project with the purpose to provide a world-wide inventory of information on abstracting and indexing services covering science and technology, social sciences and humanities in machine-readable form. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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