| ABSTRACTION | • abstraction n. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away. • abstraction n. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one’s senses. • abstraction n. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;… |
| ATTRACTION | • attraction n. The tendency to attract. • attraction n. The feeling of being attracted. • attraction n. (Countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and… |
| CONTRACTION | • contraction n. A reversible reduction in size. • contraction n. (Economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth. • contraction n. (Biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use. |
| DETRACTION | • detraction n. The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution. • detraction n. A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander. • detraction n. (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person. |
| DISTRACTION | • distraction n. Something that distracts. • distraction n. The process of being distracted. • distraction n. Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion. |
| EXTRACTION | • extraction n. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted. • extraction n. A person’s origin or ancestry. • extraction n. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc. |
| OVERABSTRACTION | Sorry, definition not available. |
| OVEREXTRACTION | • overextraction n. An excessive extraction. • OVEREXTRACTION n. excessive extraction. |
| PROTRACTION | • protraction n. (Uncountable) The condition of being protracted. • protraction n. (Countable) The act of protracting. • protraction n. (Linguistics) The lengthening of a short syllable. |
| RETRACTION | • retraction n. An act or instance of retracting. • retraction n. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion… • retraction n. (Mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace. |
| SEMIABSTRACTION | • semiabstraction n. Semiabstract artwork. • SEMIABSTRACTION n. the state of being semiabstract, having subject matter that is easily recognizable although the form is stylized. |
| SUBSTRACTION | • substraction n. (Obsolete or non-native speakers’ English) Subtraction. • SUBSTRACTION n. subtraction, also SUBTRACTION. |
| SUBTRACTION | • subtraction n. (Arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another. • subtraction n. (Arithmetic, countable) A calculation involving subtracting. • subtraction n. The removal of something. |
| TRACTION | • traction n. The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power. • traction n. The condition of being so pulled. • traction n. Grip. |