Abstract
Abstract may mean:
- Abstract (law), a brief statement of the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers
- Abstract (summary), an abbreviated summary of any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline
- Abstract art, art that does not depict objects in the natural world
- Abstract class (see Abstract and Concrete classes), a class in object-oriented programming that is designed only as a parent class and from which child classes may be derived, and which is not itself suitable for instantiation
- Abstract hip hop, a subgenre of alternative hip hop distinguished principally on the content of the lyrics
- Abstract music a disambiguation page
- Abstract structure, a set of rules, properties and relationships that is defined independently of any physical objects
Abstraction, a related term, may mean:
- Abstraction, the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects
- Abstraction (computer science), a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on few concepts at a time
- Abstraction (mathematics), the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects
- Abstraction (sociology), the varying levels at which theoretical concepts can be understood