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abs Synonyms & Antonyms

/æbz/

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Common synonyms for abs are abstruse, ascriptive and attributive. Words with the opposite meaning are actual and concrete.

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Abs as a Symbol

1

ISO 639-3 language code for Ambonese Malay.

2

absolute value

Abs as an Adjective

1

Abbreviation of abstract.

6

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

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7

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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13

Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

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Abs as a Noun

1

The abdominal muscles; plural of ab.

2

Acronym of absolute temperature.

3

Initialism of absolute value function.

4

Abdominal muscle.

5

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

6

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

7

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

Abs as a Verb

1

third-person singular simple present indicative of ab

2

To abseil.

3

(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.

4

To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

5

To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.

6

To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.

7

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.

8

To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

9

To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.

10

To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.

11

To terminate a process prior to completion.

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Abs at a Glance

Part of speechsymbol, adjective, noun, verb
Pronunciation/æbz/
MeaningISO 639-3 language code for Ambonese Malay
Synonymsabstruse, ascriptive and attributive
Antonymsactual, concrete and corporeal