Art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way.

(software, object-oriented programming) A class that has an abstract method to create an object.

(software, object-oriented programming) A creational design pattern that decouples the object creation by providing a group of individual factories by defining an abstract factory class.

plural of abstract factory pattern

(programming) A data type defined only by data properties and operations to be performed on the data without any specification as to how the data will be represented or the operations performed.

plural of abstract factory class

plural of abstract data type

(harmonic analysis, representation theory, topology) A branch of harmonic analysis dealing with generalised Fourier transforms that act on functions defined on Hausdorff locally compact topological groups.

(mathematics, number theory) A branch of number theory in which suitable ideas and techniques from analytic number theory are generalised and applied to a variety of mathematical fields.