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n. - The act of preparing a shortened version of all the main points (or an instance thereof).

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  • Bravo for an excellent summarisation, one that I agree.
  • Having a summarisation capability only by itself, might look a little dangerous since there might be open source project/s emerging that do exactly the same thing.
  • The author's summarisation is obviously full of Men's-State prejudices.
  • Tonight was men against boys, you'll read that a lot today … when I was walking to the tube, weaving in and out of fans, that was the overriding summarisation by most.
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