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Opposite of verb "abstract" and noun "abstraction"

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ANSWER 1

Score 9


You may also consider TO REIFY and REIFICATION. Broadly speaking it means "to make real". (See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reify).

Reification has a specific meaning in computer science as "the process by which an abstract idea about a computer program is turned into an explicit data model or other object" (quoting Wikipedia). You may wish to read the Wikipedia article.




ACCEPTED ANSWER

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American Heritage has concretize, but specify came to my mind.

concretize To make real or specific.

specify To state explicitly or in detail.




ANSWER 3

Score 4


Strictly in the Computer Science realm, we use "concrete" as the opposite of "abstract" as adjectives. You cannot instantiate (make one of) an abstract class; you can instantiate a concrete class. So "instantiation" probably comes close to the noun, and "instantiate" comes close to the verb. Purely in terms of taxonomy, you could use "generalization/generalize" when going up a class heirarchy towards the more abstract ("vehicle" is a generalization of "car") and "specialization/specialize" going the other way.




ANSWER 4

Score 1


Implement may be a good choice:

We can implement the details.

Another choice is flesh out:

We can flesh out the implementation details.

Or you can use both:

I will provide an implementation to flesh this out.

Fill out can also work instead of flesh out. As well, the verb form of detail can be used:

I will provide an implementation to detail this.