extraction
Abstraction of water is likely to affect the generating capacity of the dam downstream.
His theory was constructed using carefully chosen abstractions from different papers in the field's diverse literature.

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abstraction | American Dictionary

abstraction
noun[ C ]
us/æbˈstræk·ʃən/
an idea that develops by looking at or thinking about a number of different things

Examples of abstraction

abstraction
In this paper, we put forward the environment as a first-order abstraction in multiagent systems.
However, the transformation tools support symbolic reasoning, which may be used to explore the meaning of a specification at a much higher level of abstraction.
Higher order abstract syntax is an abstract syntax representation that extends syntax trees with the abstraction mechanism of the lambda calculus.
The abstraction by our imagination means we earn the approbation (or disapprobation) from those unlike as well as those like us.
More interesting are the translations of function types and region abstraction types.
To further understanding of policy problems, experimental economists construct small-scale abstractions of real-world problems (although typically these miniature replicas are framed in abstract terms).
They can be applied at varying scales of resolution: at the design event level, or over groupings or abstractions of design events.
Type variables play a role in type abstractions (obj or pro), which behave as a kind of fixed point.
This requires some overhead, but might be a useful abstraction for programmers.
By reducing the size of an abstraction, abstract unification works on smaller objects and is therefore faster, even if no precision is gained.
To address the above difficulties, our method of compositional analogy performs analogy at multiple levels of abstraction.
An abstraction for this machine is defined with an implementation of a signature that we will describe piece by piece.
Note that the hole in an evaluation context can occur within the scope of a constructor abstraction.
Internalization as a process of abstraction is geared toward finding default solutions.
Nevertheless, when it is economically conceived in this simplicity, "labor" is as modern a category as are the relations which create this simple abstraction.
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Collocations withabstraction

abstraction

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degree of abstraction
And as we have seen, the degreeofabstraction appropriate for internalization is highly debatable.
geometric abstraction
Territories are grouped into a territory model, another geometricabstraction of a design element model.
level of abstraction
In our approach, we attempt to manipulate them at a high levelofabstraction using a unified framework that allows us to specify both aspects.
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