Example sentences for: abstraction

How can you use “abstraction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the 19th century, matrices were considered the epitome of useless mathematical abstraction.

  • Later, Léger would claim he freed himself from Cézanne by means of abstraction; the path-breaking paintings he called "Contrast of Forms" (circa 1913)--fully abstract exercises in funnels, cylinders, and arcs--retain all their vigorous charm.

  • Grammar, the genetic blueprint of meaning, operates at a level of abstraction.

  • Differences between groups in time, dosage, etc. should be included in the information on the data abstraction form.

  • A change in abstraction from "empiricism or trial-and-error tinkering" to theory and the codification of theoretical knowledge "for directing innovation and the formulation of policy."


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