compendium
11Compendium — (lat. Ersparung), Handbuch oder Leitfaden, in welchem nur die wesentlichen Punkte einer Wissenschaft abgehandelt sind. Compendiarisch, eine so angelegte Behandlung einer Wissenschaft; compendiös, kurz gefaßt und in gedrängter, scharftreffender… …
12compendium — I noun abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, breviary, brief, capsule, compend, concise treatment, condensation, conspectus, contraction, digest, epitoma, epitome, essence, extract, outline, pandect, precis, recapitulation, review, summary, survey …
13compendium — has plurals compendiums (preferred) and compendia …
14compendium — [n] abridgment abstract, aperçu, brief, conspectus, digest, epitome, essence, guide, handbook, manual, overview, pandect, précis, sketch, summary, survey, syllabus, sylloge; concept 283 …
15compendium — ► NOUN (pl. compendiums or compendia) 1) a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject. 2) a collection of similar items. ORIGIN Latin, profit, saving (literally what is weighed together ), from compendere weigh… …
16compendium — [kəm pen′dē əm] n. pl. compendiums or compendia [kəm′pen′dēə] [L, a weighing together, abridgment < compendere, to weigh together < com , together + pendere, to weigh] a summary or abstract containing the essential information in a brief… …
17Compendium — Un compendium est typiquement un abrégé ou un condensé, sous la forme d une compilation, d un corpus de connaissances. Dans la plupart des cas, le compendium concerne un domaine de connaissance limité et spécifié ( par ex. un compendium de… …
18Compendium — For the computer program, see Compendium (software). A compendium is a concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. A compendium may summarize a larger work. In most cases the body of knowledge will concern some delimited field… …
19Compendium — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Compendium >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 compend compend compendium Sgm: N 1 abstract abstract precis epitome multum in parvo analysis pandect digest sum and substance brief abridgment …
20compendium — UK [kəmˈpendɪəm] / US noun [countable] Word forms compendium : singular compendium plural compendiums 1) formal a detailed collection of information on a particular subject, especially in a short book a compendium of herbal medicine 2) British a… …
