COMPENDIUM

Compendium

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 of human interest or endeavour, while a "universal" encyclopedia can be referred to as a compendium of all human knowledge. It could also be referred to as a tome.

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compendium

Noun

  1. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  2. A list or collection of various items.


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