The phrase "abstract target" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a concept, goal, or objective that is not concrete or tangible.
Example: "In our research, we aim to define an abstract target that represents the ideal outcome of our theoretical model."
Alternatives: "conceptual goal" or "theoretical objective".
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One reason is that the metaphorical mapping from a concrete source to an abstract target is only partial.
First, we introduce the Simulink combined algorithm/architecture model (CAAM) unifying the algorithm and the abstract target architecture.
What is clear is that a similar approach can be used, using an abstract target for input and output requests.
In the sentence "That flat tire cost me an hour," the annotation of the word cost will show its abstract target (time) and its concrete source (money).
Metaphors, such as Life is a Journey, describe one thing in terms of another: they're mappings from a concrete source term (journey) to an abstract target term (life).
These abstract targets can then be provided with appropriate specializations to embed the application within a particular environment.
You might lose your home, livelihood, and loved ones to a natural disaster, but it's hard to strike back at abstract targets like nature and the gods.
Mr. Li's focus on ordinary people mirrors growing concerns at the top levels of government that urbanization is currently being carried out to satisfy abstract targets instead of improving people's livelihood.
In each of 200 trials (100 per session), subjects first saw two abstract targets on the screen and were asked to choose one of them as quickly as possible by pressing the left or right button with the left or right thumb on a response box (maximum response time: 2 s).
However, achieving an understanding of a future state as an abstract research target is possible.
