excerption

Noun

Meaning

a passage selected from a larger work

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

selection extract excerpt citation choice channel passage recovery mining removal abstract extraction quote abstraction quotation
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Antonyms

loss paraphrase

Hypernyms

passage

Hyponyms

citation cut track cutting quote quotation

Examples

he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

excerpter excerptible excerpting excerptive excerptor excerptum