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precis: make a summary (of)

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ellipsis collapse: omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

elision collapse: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

scenario collapse: a postulated sequence of possible events; "planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack"; an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work); a setting for a work of art or literature; "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror"

thumbnail sketch collapse

syllabus collapse

compendium collapse: a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

programme collapse

overview collapse: a general summary of a subject; "the treasurer gave a brief overview of the financial consequences"

conspectus collapse: an overall summary

synopsis collapse

recapitulation collapse: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion; (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

compression collapse: applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required; the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

summation collapse: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"; a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court); (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

abridgment collapse

epitome collapse: a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

pandect collapse

telescope collapse: a magnifier of images of distant objects; make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"; crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

retrenchment collapse: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable; entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

abbreviation collapse: shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase

apercu collapse: a short synopsis

curtailment collapse: the temporal property of being cut short

summary collapse: a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"

recap collapse

condensation collapse: (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams; a shortened version of a written work; atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold; the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state

skeleton collapse: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"; a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"; something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"

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