abs

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.

1. (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
2. To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
3. To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
4. To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
5. 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.
6. To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
7. To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
8. To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
9. To terminate a process prior to completion.

noun

Initialism of absolute value function.

noun

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

1. Derived; extracted.
2. Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
4. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
5. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
6. 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.
7. Absent-minded.
8. Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
9. Insufficiently factual.
10. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
11. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
12. Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.