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abs Meaning & Definition

/æbz/

What Does Abs Mean?

Abs is a symbol that means ISO 639-3 language code for Ambonese Malay. As an adjective, it means Abbreviation of abstract. As a noun, it means The abdominal muscles; plural of ab.

Abs at a Glance

Part of speech	symbol, adjective, noun, verb
Pronunciation	/æbz/
Synonyms	abstruse, ascriptive and attributive
Antonyms	actual, concrete and corporeal

Abs Definition (Symbol)

ISO 639-3 language code for Ambonese Malay.

Symbol

absolute value

Abs as an Adjective

Abbreviation of abstract.

Abs as a Noun

The abdominal muscles; plural of ab.
Acronym of absolute temperature.
Initialism of absolute value function.

Abs as a Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of ab

Noun

Abdominal muscle.

Noun

An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.

Verb

To abseil.

Noun

The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.

Verb

(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.

Noun

Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.

Adjective

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.
Absent-minded.
Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Insufficiently factual.
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
(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.