(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
(2) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(3) The resulting compendium of objectives suggests that geriatric dentistry should become integrated into general dentistry, with relatively few competencies reserved for specialists.
(4) Despite significant progress, further advances in intestinal transplantation need to be made, because the small bowel poses unique problems in that it seems to represent a compendium of all the particularities and difficulties of other organ transplantations.
(5) This compendium presents the references by Journal Name.
(6) ‘Will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants’ “Because copyright law is limited to ‘original intellectual conceptions of the author,’ the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work,” said the US Copyright Office in its latest compendium of practices published Tuesday .
(7) This compendium provides a quick reference to available tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, lithium carbonate, and stimulants.
(8) Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches.
(9) This result suggests that there is a lack of agreement among industrialized countries regarding what amount of information is necessary or appropriate for inclusion in a commercial drug compendium.
(10) The Orange Book contains public information and advice, but it is not an official national compendium; FDA has no position on state regulation of drug product selection by pharmacists.
(11) Dodgy decisions (1992's B-sides compendium, Greatest Misses ) and the explosion of MTV-friendly rap conspired against them their popularity waned.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine what differences exist in the content of commercial drug compendium monographs available in First World and Third World countries.
(13) A compendium of the clinical experience with methylene chloride poisoning is presented.
(14) Several recent articles in the Compendium have emphasized the importance of differentiating between acute and chronic pain for purposes of appropriate clinical management.
(15) His 1993 collection, United States: Essays 1952-1992, is a huge and majestic compendium that charts not just Vidal's rumbustious life but the culture and politics of the country he could love and hate in the same sentence.
(16) It was found that the sensitivity of this new pyrogen test to bacterial lipopolysaccharides is nearly the same as to sodium nucleinate, which is prescribed as pyrogen standard in the Pharmacopeia of the German Democratic Republic and recommended as such in the Compendium Medicamentorum.
(17) The ILC Compendium is "a snapshot of the older woman's life in the UK today", showing that many women outlive men, and suffer more poverty, illness, violence and abuse, and it calls for young women to campaign and make sure we don't become second-class citizens.
(18) Presented here is a compendium of studies investigating the fate of vascularized bone allografts.
(19) The two reference texts most frequently found in community pharmacists' libraries were Compendium of Pharmaceutical Specialties and Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the latter being available to only 49 percent of the pharmacists.
(20) Table 7 presents a compendium of laboratory investigations one should consider using when abnormalities are found in multiple organ systems.
Compilation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
(n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(2) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(4) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
(5) This report summarizes 1989 infant mortality data based on information from death certificates compiled through the Vital Statistics System of CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (1) and compares findings with those for 1988.
(6) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
(7) Meanwhile, data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute in December 2013 shows that unintended pregnancies are increasingly concentrated among poor and less educated women.
(8) The index, now in its third year, was compiled by the PR firm Portland Communications in conjunction with the University of Southern California school of public diplomacy.
(9) Compiled from data gathered at 14:00 on 3 April 2014.
(10) The use of the latter in compiling bibliographic databases and in content analysis of interview transcripts is described.
(11) Interspike time histograms were very similar and had a mode of about 280 ms. Peristimulus time histograms were compiled from 15 active MDN-LS neurons.
(12) In order to compile an accurate air-quality data base for use in estimating exposure via inhalation, raw data values were sought where possible, and the required calculations were performed on a computer with state-of-the-art algorithms.
(13) Over the last month, the company has released PR materials that highlight the Gulf’s resilience, as well as a report compiling scientific studies that suggest the area is making a rapid recovery.
(14) The EU report said that the MIT, Turkey’s intelligence service, had begun compiling lists of “troublesome individuals” years ago.
(15) An earlier version referred incorrectly to “an expert appointed by UNHCR” where it should have said “an expert taken from a list compiled by the UNHCR and appointed by the state”.
(16) An analysis of 401 gynecologic deaths occurring at the Charity Hospital of Louisianna in New Orleans from April 1961 to January 1969 was compiled for comparison with a similar study (401 fatalities) conducted at the same medical facility in 194 (Miller).
(17) The property website Zoopla, which compiled the data, found that there are 3,744 streets in London where the price of homes is on average higher than £1m, and 10,613 across the country.
(18) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
(19) Genetic markers in people of African ancestry and tables comparing Africans and Europeans are compiled to illustrate the blood differences.
(20) A main frame computer program SIMP, based on a simplex method using differential equations, was also operated using a microcomputer equipped with a FORTRAN compiler and a 8087 floating-point coprocessor.