Abstraction

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Abstraction is the process of reducing the information content of a concept, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose.

Abstraction typically results in complexity reduction leading to a simpler conceptualization of a domain in order to facilitate processing or understanding of many specific scenarios in a generic way