The phrase "abstract means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing theoretical concepts or methods that are not concrete or tangible.
Example: "In philosophy, abstract means are often employed to explore ideas that cannot be easily defined or measured."
Alternatives: "theoretical methods" or "conceptual approaches".
The fact that the row-oriented data model itself is abstract means that semantics (meaning and context of the data) are not represented by the database structure [ 8].
Abstract means snobbish, bad.
and relies instead on abstract means — shadows and smoke and twenty-four white silk curtains, billowing and furling and unfurling — but the great, crashing score is still there, played by the Orchestra of St . Lukes, and, if no young girl dances herself to death at the end, a young man (the excellent Christopher Williams) is lofted into the air, doing perfect entrechats.
But by this time, Halliday had moved to a more abstract means of classifying linguistic form.
In the second essay in Science's series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Michael Balter discusses the evolution of the human ability to develop mental images and convey them through abstract means such as drawing and sculpting.
Incoming students seem to be expected, therefore, to make a radical shift from concrete means of operation to more abstract means.
At the same time there are enough artists seriously rethinking existing models that very basic definitions — What does abstract mean?
His interest in materials and technique is amplified by a series of drawings, many abstract, meant to be seen under black light, but the climax of the show is unexpected: a roomful of oval and circular landscapes done in Jamaica in the 1990's.
A minor flaw in the proof of the abstract mean ergodic theorem (Theorem 5.7) is fixed as well.
We first formulate an abstract mean ergodic theorem which contains as special cases many known or new mean ergodic theorems.
Using the Euler characteristic, MacPherson and Srolovitz also invented an abstract "mean width" that they could calculate for any object regardless of its shape.
