An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
to conceive; to dream up
Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
The act of postulating or something postulated.