noun
- brief summaries of longer documents or research papers
- theoretical concepts or ideas not based on concrete realities
verb
- removes or takes away from something
- summarizes the main points of a document or text
Examples
- The journal requires authors to submit abstracts with their research papers.
- She read the abstracts to decide which articles were worth reading in full.
- Philosophy deals with abstracts like justice and beauty.
- The software abstracts data from multiple databases.
- He abstracts the key findings from each study.
- The conference proceedings include abstracts of all presentations.
- Students often struggle with abstracts in mathematics.