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summarisation

summarisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of summarization.

Meaning of summarization

Noun

summarization (countable and uncountable, plural summarizations)

  1. (countable) The act of summarizing.
    • Jim is very adept at summarization.
  2. (uncountable) The process of summarizing.
    • After summarization, these documents seem much simpler.
  3. (countable) A summary; the result of summarizing.
    • Jim's summarization of the incident was very useful.

Forms of summarisation

pluralsummarisations

Origin of summarisation

From summarise + -ation.

Questions about summarisation

What is summarisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Summarisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of summarization.

Words near summarisation in the dictionary

  1. summands
  2. summaries
  3. summarily
  4. summariness
  5. summarisable
  6. summarisation
  7. summarisations
  8. summarise
  9. summarised
  10. summariser
  11. summarisers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: summarisation (page history and authors); summarization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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