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The correct spelling is abs.
How to pronounce abs
noun
IPA: /æbz/
Say it like: Abs
The correct spelling is abs. Abdominal muscle.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Abdominal muscle.
- 2.An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
- 3.The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
- 4.Initialism of absolute value function.
- 5.Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
verb
- 1.To abseil.
- 2.(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- 3.To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- 4.To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- 5.To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
adjective
- 1.Derived; extracted.
- 2.Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- 3.Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- 4.Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- 5.Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
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