compendious

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Joyce was well aware of his compendious cast of mind and proud to find it manifest among his children.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2018

Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 16, 2017

It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .

From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2015

What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013

But more than a compendious economical symbol for these phenomena, that name and thought is not.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst