abstracting

verb

Meaning

To separate; to disengage.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
To extract by means of distillation.

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