Abstraction
The act of looking for similarities across sets of things by focusing on the essential common characteristics that make those things different from other kinds of things. An abstract class is a parent class or superclass in an object-oriented software system. A programmer would use abstraction to note that two functions perform almost the same task and can be combined into a single function. Abstraction is one of the most important techniques in software engineering.
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