abstract form

collocation in English

meaningsofabstractandform

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abstract
adjective
uk
/ˈæb.strækt/us
/ˈæb.strækt/
existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofabstractandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Elementary pattern matching may therefore be recast inabstractform, with a semantics given by translation.
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The representations maintained in the computer in someabstractformcan, in a sense, be thought of as a metamedium.
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Consequently, they propose that motor programs are represented centrally in someabstractform, where they are accessed and "interpreted" by the relevant low-level effectors.
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As always, we first state our requirements in anabstractformand try to give a suitable axiomatization.
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In condensed,abstractform, the mind-body question was the question of how the world lived as value relates to the world known as fact.
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Section 4.2 below describes how the diverse features relating to function,abstractform, and massing are related through type constraints.
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Moreover, additional constraints on the quantitative correspondence betweenabstractformand linguistic material may affect the realization of metrical positions.
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That is, these idioms have meanings that involve anabstractformof caused motion and are therefore incompatible with the double object variant.
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What is analysed here as a fundamental property is now formulated inabstractform.
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They also opened up a whole set of feelings about form and space, seen asabstractformand space.
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After all, nobody denies that these principles first arose in biology and are now transferred (in anabstractform) to economics.
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We give theabstractformof the theorem first.
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Describing anabstractformof interaction is a crucial procedural step even for a historical materialist study.
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We believe that such context cues are input into other lower cortical areas in the moreabstractformof codes rather than raw sensory information.
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Thisabstractformof gold is, however, complemented from the very beginning of the poem by more concrete versions.
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This trial has been reported only inabstractform, and no information was given on its methodology.
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