A short summary of the contents of a document that gives the reader a quick overview of its topic and purpose.
Other meanings:
(transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
(transitive) (obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
an abrigement or summary
free from representational qualities
(intransitive) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
Difficult to understand.
(transitive) To separate; to remove; to take away.
An abridgement or summary.
That which is abstract.
an extract of a vegetable substance
an abstract work of art
extracted
(obsolete) Extracted.
(medicine) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.