The phrase "abstract devices" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to conceptual tools or mechanisms that are not physically tangible, often in discussions related to art, literature, or technology.
Example: "The artist employed various abstract devices to convey complex emotions in her work."
Alternatives: "conceptual tools" or "theoretical instruments".
Sometimes it's a combination of abstract devices and realism.
Turing was able to do some amazing things with his abstract devices, which soon became known as "Turing machines".
Abstract devices, like tilting surfaces up toward the picture plane, simplifying complex shapes and heightening colors to unnatural levels, indicate that each, as Ms. Schorr put it, is "looking at reality without rejecting abstraction".
Language becomes just another structural, abstract device, like movement or sound.
A Turing machine is an abstract device that receives information as input and produces other information as output, the particular output depending on the input, the internal state of the machine, and a finite set of rules that associate input and machine-state with output.
While WoT solution only proposes to abstract device function as an atomic service without further composition.
It still holds good, but now the structural description does not necessarily provide physical properties but another abstract device.
This distributed policy protocol is intended to propagate an abstract, device-independent policy between a network controller and other network devices.
Mobile enterprise vendors are now addressing these issues by providing products that abstract device and network complexity, thus simplifying and reducing the cost of developing and maintaining mobile applications.
Mesh abstracts devices and operating systems into objects that can be coordinated and orchestrated to deliver the appearance of a single or composite device.
The framework provides for applications a common communication interface to abstract different devices and reading protocols as well as functions to process and distribute data.
