Abstract
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Abstract may refer to:
- Abstract (law)Abstract (law)In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.-Abstract of title:The Abstract of Title, used in real estate transactions, is the more common form of abstract...
, a summary of a legal document - Abstract (summary)Abstract (summary)An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding 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...
, in scientific publishing - Abstract artAbstract artAbstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
, artistic works that don't attempt to represent reality or concrete subjects - Abstract structureAbstract structureAn abstract structure in mathematics is a formal object that is defined by a set of laws, properties, and relationships in a way that is logically if not always historically independent of the structure of contingent experiences, for example, those involving physical objects...
in mathematics - Abstract objectAbstract objectAn abstract object is an object which does not exist at any particular time or place, but rather exists as a type of thing . In philosophy, an important distinction is whether an object is considered abstract or concrete. Abstract objects are sometimes called abstracta An abstract object is an...
in philosophy - Abstract typeAbstract typeIn programming languages, an abstract type is a type in a nominative type system which cannot be instantiated. An abstract type may have no implementation, or an incomplete implementation...
in computer science - The property of an AbstractionAbstractionAbstraction is a process by which higher concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal concepts, first principles, or other methods....
- Q-Tip (rapper)Q-Tip (rapper)Kamaal Ibn John Fareed , better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American hip hop artist, producer, singer, and actor from St. Albans, Queens, New York, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest...
, also known as "The Abstract"