Abstraction

The process of reducing complexity to formulate general main ideas or concepts, away from specific details or situations. For example, the idea that a cricket ball is a sphere, like a soccer ball, or the concept that data can be organized into datasets made up of fields, be it numbers, text, images, or whatever, it works. †

Meanings of Abstraction

The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing or eliminating a state of remoteness.
Separation from the objects of the world, withdrawal into oneself, withdrawal from feelings.
The act of focusing on a property of an object rather than the object as a set of properties. The act of separating these properties from the object or ideas.
Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic is separated from the object and considered separately as a quality with an independent existence.
A member of a subgroup idealized in terms of the abstract quality that defines the subgroup.
The action of comparing similarities between different entities and organizations using this similarity is the action of generalizing the characteristics of the product of this generalization.
An idea or concept of an abstract or theoretical nature.
Absence or absorption of the mind's inattention due to preoccupation with present objects.
Abstract work or artwork Properties of artworks, devoid of figurative aspects.
Separation of volatile components by distillation.
An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or prescient nature.
The result of the mental abstraction of an idea is the product of any thought process that involves synthesis: separation, despecification, generalization, and presentation in one of several combinations.
The union of two river valleys of the larger of the two deepens and expands to the absorption of the smaller.
Any generalization method that ignores or hides details in order to capture something in common between different instances in order to master the intellectual complexity of engineering systems, especially software systems.
Any intelligent design created using the technique of abstraction.