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abs

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English (US)
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abs

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, abs is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofabs

1noun
  • Abdominal muscle.
1noun
  • An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
1verb
  • To abseil.
1noun
  • The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
1verb
  • (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.
  • To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
  • To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
  • To terminate a process prior to completion.
1noun
  • Initialism of absolute value function.
1noun
  • Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
1adjective
  • Derived; extracted.
  • Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
  • Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.

    Synonyms: conceptual, ideal, imaginary, incorporeal, intangible, nonempirical, theoretical

  • Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

    Synonyms: abstruse

  • Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

    Synonyms: ascriptive, attributive

  • 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.

    Synonyms: general, generalized, generic, nonspecific, representational

  • Absent-minded.
  • Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
  • Insufficiently factual.

    Synonyms: formal

  • Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

    Synonyms: conceptual, theoretical

  • (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
  • Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

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