ABSTRACT FORM collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of abstract and form
abstract
adjective
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/ˈæb.strækt/us
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/ˈæb.strækt/
existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a ...
form
noun
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/fɔːm/us
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/fɔːrm/
a document with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
Examples of abstract form
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Elementary pattern matching may therefore be recast in abstract form, with a semantics given by translation.
The representations maintained in the computer in some abstract form can, in a sense, be thought of as a metamedium.
Consequently, they propose that motor programs are represented centrally in some abstract form, where they are accessed and "interpreted" by the relevant low-level effectors.
As always, we first state our requirements in an abstract form and try to give a suitable axiomatization.
In condensed, abstract form, the mind-body question was the question of how the world lived as value relates to the world known as fact.
Section 4.2 below describes how the diverse features relating to function, abstract form, and massing are related through type constraints.
Moreover, additional constraints on the quantitative correspondence between abstract form and linguistic material may affect the realization of metrical positions.
That is, these idioms have meanings that involve an abstract form of caused motion and are therefore incompatible with the double object variant.
What is analysed here as a fundamental property is now formulated in abstract form.
They also opened up a whole set of feelings about form and space, seen as abstract form and space.
After all, nobody denies that these principles first arose in biology and are now transferred (in an abstract form) to economics.
We give the abstract form of the theorem first.
Describing an abstract form of interaction is a crucial procedural step even for a historical materialist study.
We believe that such context cues are input into other lower cortical areas in the more abstract form of codes rather than raw sensory information.
This abstract form of gold is, however, complemented from the very beginning of the poem by more concrete versions.
This trial has been reported only in abstract form, and no information was given on its methodology.
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