| 释义 |
abstracting, vbl. n.|æbˈstræktɪŋ|
[f. abstract v. + -ing1.]
The act or process of withdrawing, separating, taking away, or forming abstract notions. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1690Locke Hum. Underst. (ed. 3) ii. xi. 76 The power of Abstracting is not at all in them [the beasts]. 1879J. Wrightson Farming etc. in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 108/2 We conclude..by abstracting a sentence or two from Mr. H. N. Jenkins's report. |