COMPENDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compendium mean? 

• COMPENDIUM (noun)
  The noun COMPENDIUM has 2 senses:

1. a publication containing a variety of works

2. a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

  Familiarity information: COMPENDIUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPENDIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A publication containing a variety of works

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

collection; compendium

Hypernyms ("compendium" is a kind of...):

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compendium"):

anthology (a collection of selected literary passages)

archives (collection of records especially about an institution)

compilation; digest (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("compendium" is a kind of...):

sum-up; summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)

Derivation:

compendious (briefly giving the gist of something)

 Context examples 

A multi-organism, publicly accessible compendium of peptides identified in a large set of tandem mass spectrometry proteomics experiments.

(PeptideAtlas, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes studies on environmental chemicals and stressors and their effects, as well as a relational and descriptive data compendia on toxicologically important genes, groups of genes, SNPs, mutants and their attributes across species that are relevant to human health and environmental disease.

(Chemical Effects in Biological Systems, NCI Thesaurus)

However, because the Swiss astronomer’s catalogue never achieved wider renown, Messier’s re-discovery of the Omega Nebula in 1764 led to its becoming Messier 17, the seventeenth object in the Frenchman’s popular compendium (eso0925).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)