abstractive
/æbˈstræktɪv/
adjective
- Having the quality of or involving abstraction; tending to think in or use abstract ideas rather than concrete details.
- Children develop abstractive reasoning skills as they grow older.
- Her abstractive thinking allowed her to see patterns others missed.
- The abstractive process of summarizing a long novel into a single sentence is challenging.
- Relating to the act of separating or removing something from a larger whole.
- In linguistics, abstractive analysis looks at how sounds are extracted from speech.
- The abstractive method in chemistry involves isolating a pure substance from a mixture.
- The engineer used an abstractive technique to simplify the complex system.
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