a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
the act of withdrawing or removing something | the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
an abstract painting | any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal |
a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements |
preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
| (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
| a statute in draft before it becomes law |
| a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated |