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Focusing on the general characteristics of a problem or object, while ignoring the details, is a technique called

O refinement
O abstraction
O decomposition
O pattern recognition

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Abstraction

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In computer science, abstraction has a similar definition. It is a simplified version of something technical, such as a function or an object in a program. The goal of "abstracting" data is to reduce complexity by removing unnecessary information. At some level, we all think of computers in abstract terms.

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