summary
Definitions
adj
Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
Near-synonym: abstractive
A summary review is in the appendix.
Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
Near-synonym: extrajudicial
They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.
The summary executions caused outrage.
noun
An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.
make a summary of the events
name
A surname.