compendium
noun/kəmˈpɛn.di.əm/
Etymology From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together; a sparing, a saving, an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pendō (“to weigh”).
1
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
2
A list or collection of various items.
- It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.2008, Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess, page 157:
3
A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
4
A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
Pharmaceutical industry
- Synonyms
- encyclopedia, cyclopedia
- Derived terms
- biocompendium, compendial
- Related terms
- compendious