ab-

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See a-(6).

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• prefix non-productive From
• prefix non-productive Away from; outside of.
• prefix physics an electromagnetic unit in the centimeter-gram-second system: abcoulomb.