abs

/æbz/ · noun

Meaning

Abdominal muscle.
An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
To abseil.
The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
Initialism of absolute value function.
Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
Derived; extracted.
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.

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