summary
/sŭm′ə-rē/
adjective
  1. Presenting the substance in a condensed form; concise.
    a summary review.
  2. Performed speedily and without ceremony.
    summary justice; a summary rejection.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. More at Wordnik
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Dictionary.com
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SUMMARY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
A summary is a brief statement or restatement of main points, especially as a conclusion to a work: a summary of a chapter. A brief is a detailed outline, by heads and subheads, of a discourse (usually legal) to be completed: a brief for an argument. A digest is an abridgment of an article, ...
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Vocabulary.com
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Summary - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
A summary gives a short overview, or the main points, of something longer. She talked for days about the 800-page romantic novel, but her boyfriend's summary was "Girl meets boy, boy meets girl, boy rides horse into sunset, girl meets new boy.
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Merriam-Webster
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SUMMARY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
2 weeks ago - 1 · : comprehensive · especially : covering the main points succinctly · Take our 3 question quiz on summary · 2 · a · : done without delay or formality : quickly executed · a summary dismissal · b · : of, relating to, or using a summary ...
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Longman
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summary | meaning of summary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE
→ executive summarysummarysummary2 adjective [only before a noun]1giving the main points, but not all the detailsThe internal review board issued a summary report on 5 April.2done immediately, without paying attention to the usual processes, rules etcThis is classed as gross misconduct, ...
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Collins Dictionary
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SUMMARY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
conducted without, or exempt from, the various steps and delays of a formal trial SYNONYMS 1. outline, précis. summary, brief, digest, synopsis are terms for a short version of a longer work.
Published   December 20, 2017
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RDocumentation
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summarySE function - RDocumentation
Rmisc (version 1.5) Gives count, mean, standard deviation, standard error of the mean, and confidence interval (default 95%). summarySE(data = NULL, measurevar, groupvars = NULL, na.rm = FALSE, conf.interval = 0.95, .drop = TRUE) data · a data frame · measurevar ·
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VP Nagraj
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summary_se() | VP Nagraj
May 8, 2019 - My most recent visit was to refresh ... data. summarySE() is a custom function that computes the mean, standard deviation, count, standard error, confidence interval for a variable (“measurevar”) within defined grouping variables (“groupvars”)....
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Statology
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How to Use summary() Function in R (With Examples)
August 18, 2021 - The following code shows how to use the summary() function to summarize the values in a vector: #define vector x <- c(3, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 13, 15, 19, 21) #summarize values in vector summary(x) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu.
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RDocumentation
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summary function - RDocumentation
summary is a generic function used to produce result summaries of the results of various model fitting functions. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument. ... # S3 method for default summary(object, …, digits, quantile.type = 7) # S3 method ...
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WordHippo
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What is the plural of summary?
The plural of summary is summaries. Find more words at wordhippo.com!
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ETH Zurich
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R: Object Summaries
summary(object, ...) ## Default S3 method: summary(object, ..., digits, quantile.type = 7, character.method = c("default", "factor"), polar = TRUE) ## S3 method for class 'data.frame' summary(object, maxsum = 7, digits = max(3, getOption("digits")-3), ...) ## S3 method for class 'factor' summary(object, maxsum = 100, ...) ## S3 method for class 'matrix' summary(object, ...) ## S3 method for class 'summaryDefault' format(x, digits = max(3L, getOption("digits") - 3L), zdigits = 4L, ...) ## S3 method for class 'summaryDefault' print(x, digits = max(3L, getOption("digits") - 3L), zdigits = 4L, ...) For factors, the frequency of the first maxsum - 1 most frequent levels is shown, and the less frequent levels are summarized in "(Other)" (resulting in at most maxsum frequencies).
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The Writing Center
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Summary: Using it Wisely – The Writing Center
March 3, 2026 - Knowing how to summarize something you have read, seen, or heard is a valuable skill, one you have probably used in many writing assignments. It is important, though, to recognize when you must go beyond describing, explaining, and restating texts and offer a more complex analysis.
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Cleveland State University
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CREATING A SUMMARY | Cleveland State University
The length of a summary depends on how much development you need: development refers to direct quotes, examples, paraphrases or reasoning. ... full name of the author title of the source (in quotes if an article, italicized if a book) date of publication (either in parentheses or in the sentence) background information regarding the publication your focus/thesis the social significance of your thesis (the “so what”)
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Summary Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
1 summary · /ˈsʌməri/ noun · plural summaries · Britannica Dictionary definition of SUMMARY · [count] : a brief statement that gives the most important information about something · He concluded the report with a brief summary. a ...
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Danieldsjoberg
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Summary table — tbl_summary • gtsummary
Named lists are also accepted to change the default formatting for a single statistic, e.g. list(sd = label_style_number(digits=1)). There are four summary types.
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Wiktionary
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summary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).[1][2] ... Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form. Synonyms: summative, summarizing (part.
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Bookdown
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Chapter 2 Summary Statistics | Foundations of Statistics
A statistic that is a measure of location summarises the data by giving a single number that is, in some sense, typical of that set of data. There are three commonly used measures of location, of which the mean is the most important. Mean Suppose that \(n\) measurements have been taken on the random variable under investigation, and these are denoted by \(x_1 ...
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W3Schools
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HTML summary Tag
summary { display: block; } ❮ Previous Complete HTML Reference Next ❯ · ★ +1 · Sign in to track progress · REMOVE ADS · PLUS · SPACES · GET CERTIFIED · FOR TEACHERS · BOOTCAMPS · CONTACT US · × · If you want to use W3Schools services as an educational institution, team or enterprise, send us an e-mail: sales@w3schools.com ·
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Merriam-Webster
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SUMMARY Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
1 week ago - Log In · summary 1 of 2 · ˈsə-mə-rē · Definition of summary · as in outline a short statement of the main points many book reports choose to begin with a summary of the book · Synonyms & Similar Words · Relevance · outline ·