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Definition of Summarisation

1. Noun. The act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly.

Definition of Summarisation

1. Noun. The act of summarising ¹

2. Noun. The process of summarising ¹

3. Noun. A summary; the result of summarising ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Summarisation

Literary usage of Summarisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Some Physico-chemical Themes by Alfred Walter Stewart (1922)
"In that summarisation, much that is tentative in an original paper cannot but be handled in a more dogmatic fashion in the book; and in this way false ..."

2. The Bookman (1897)
"And among much that is slipshod simply because of the vastness of the plan, there is some excellent summarisation. He does full justice to American painters ..."

3. Books in General by John Collings Squire (1921)
"But if Mr. Wells keeps up to his first level, he will, whether we share his outlook or not, have produced a masterpiece of summarisation and popularisation. ..."

4. Elements of Statistics by Arthur Lyon Bowley (1901)
"summarisation.—Now that we have the method of averages at our disposal we may use it for tabulating and summarising a group of figures. ..."

5. Elements of Statistics by Arthur Lyon Bowley (1917)
"summarisation.— Now that we have the method of averages at our disposal we may use it for tabulating and summarising a group of figures. ..."

6. The Practical Book of Interior Decoration by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Abbot McClure, Edward Stratton Holloway (1919)
"In his admirable summarisation of characteristics that dominated the style of Louis XIV, WH Ward (Architecture of the Renaissance in France) says, ..."

7. American Police Administration: A Handbook on Police Organization and by Elmer Diedrich Graper (1921)
"summarisation. Secondly, and this is really implied in what has just been said, these individual reports should be carefully summarized from time to time, ..."

8. Logic: In Three Books, of Thought, of Investigation, and of Knowledge by Hermann Lotze (1888)
"Classifications would belong entirely to applied logic if they aimed at nothing more than complete summarisation, such as is required either when we wish to ..."

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