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excerption

/ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/

excerption noun: the act of excerpting or selecting.

Noun

excerption (countable and uncountable, plural excerptions)

  1. The act of excerpting or selecting.
  2. Something which is selected or gleaned; an extract (of text, audio, data etc.).
    • his excerptions out of Fathers1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Forms of excerption

pluralexcerptions

Origin of excerption

Latin excerptio.

Questions about excerption

What does excerption mean?
Excerption means the act of excerpting or selecting.
What part of speech is excerption?
Excerption is a noun.
How do you pronounce excerption?
Excerption is pronounced /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/.
What is the plural of excerption?
The plural of excerption is excerptions.

Words near excerption in the dictionary

  1. excerpter
  2. excerpters
  3. excerptible
  4. excerpting
  5. excerptings
  6. excerption
  7. excerptions
  8. excerptive
  9. excerptor
  10. excerptors
  11. excerpts

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