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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compendium \Com*pen"di*um\, n.; pl. E. Compendiums, L. Compendia. [L. compendium that which is weighed, saved, or shortened, a short way, fr. compendere to weigh; com- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, and cf. Compend.] A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
A short system or compendium of a science.
--I. Watts.
Syn: See Abridgment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2 A list or collection of various items. 3 # (label en pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
WordNet
n. a publication containing a variety of works [syn: collection]
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Wikipedia
A compendium (plural: compendia) is a concise compilation of a body of knowledge. A compendium may summarize a larger work. In most cases the body of knowledge will concern a specific field of human interest or endeavour (for example: hydrogeology, logology, ichthyology, phytosociology or myrmecology), while a general encyclopedia can be referred to as a compendium of all human knowledge.
The word compendium arrives from the Latin word "compenso", meaning "to weigh together or balance". The 21st century has seen the rise of democratized, online compendia in various fields.
Compendium is a computer program and social science tool that facilitates the mapping and management of ideas and arguments. The software provides a visual environment that allows people to structure and record collaboration as they discuss and work through ' wicked problems'.
The software is currently released by the not-for-profit Compendium Institute. The current version operationalises the Issue-Based Information System (IBIS), an argumentation mapping structure first developed by Horst Rittel in the 1970s. Compendium adds hypertext functionality and database interoperability to the issue-based notation derived from IBIS.
Compendium source code was fully released under LGPL licence on 13 January 2009.
Compendium may refer to:
- Compendium, a Wikipedia article defining the word 'compendium'.
- Compendium Books, a London bookstore specialising in experimental literary and theoretical publications.
- Compendium of Chemical Terminology, a book published by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
- Compendium Maleficarum, a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan, Italy in 1608.
- Compendium of Materia Medica, a Chinese medical book written by Li Shizhen during the Ming Dynasty.
- Compendium of Muslim Texts, an online, searchable database of the Quran and hadith texts.
- Compendium of postage stamp issuers (F), a collection of entries about stamp issuers beginning with the letter 'F'.
- Compendium of postage stamp issuers (J), a collection of entries about stamp issuers beginning with the letter 'J'.
- Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a catechism promulgated for the Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II in 1992.
- Compendium (software), a computer program and social science tool that facilitates the mapping and management of ideas and arguments.
- Compendium: The Best of Patrick Street, a year 2000 compilation album by the Irish folk band Patrick Street.
Usage examples of "compendium".
His hope with regard to his fame from these works was fulfilled, for they were printed as late as 1515 at Leyden, and Sprengel declared them the best compendium of simple remedies and diet that we have from the Arabian times.
There, amid a fabulous fetishistic compendium of Belle Epoque embroidered underclothes, he at last smelled the rearrangement going on in me.
World State of the Modern Utopist will, in its economic aspect, be a compendium of established economic experience, about which individual enterprise will be continually experimenting, either to fail and pass, or to succeed and at last become incorporated with the undying organism of the World State.
The Compendium of Human Knowledge, the knowledge of the ages crammed into one volume, two thousand pages.
Petersburg, 1892, which, apart from its theoretical value, is a rich compendium of data relative to this subject.
Her hair, cut short, was that compendium of gold and silver achieved only when nature has been aided by an expensive hairdresser.
The general title of such a compendium being Tabulas Mortem, Lists of the Dead.
By another coincidence, Allan Asherman of DC Comics, who had put together The Star Trek Compendium, had a copy of the outline.
He is hero, saint, scholar, gentleman, athlete, pugilist, navigator, physiologist, botanist, blacksmith and carpenter all rolled into one, the sort of compendium of all the talents that Reade honestly imagined to be the normal product of an English university.
Sorcerers: A Biographical Compendium, published in 1784, wondering if the author had tried to make the summaries boring.
Of course the bookcase held a few school manuals and compendiums, and one of Mr.
He died at the age of fifty, and is regarded by posterity as a Stoic philosopher, a scholar, and a compendium of all the virtues.
If you prevent people making profit out of their children—and every civilised State—even that compendium of old-fashioned Individualism, the United States of America—is now disposed to admit the necessity of that prohibition—and if you provide for the aged instead of leaving them to their children's sense of duty, the practical inducements to parentage, except among very wealthy people, are greatly reduced.
Parts of this knowledge had been excerpted, appended to the older compendia of our Temple’s lore.
That is not however the law as is obvious in the case of maps or compendia, where later works will necessarily be anticipated.