compendious

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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

A compendious architectural history of these little known buildings, the book is also a document of a singular artistic and intellectual society in formation.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2015

Her new book, How to be a Victorian – sturdy, Beetonian, compendious – has bigger ambitions.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

Knowing the value of the acceleration of gravity, and Galileo's laws of descent, we possess simple and compendious directions for reproducing in thought all possible motions of falling bodies.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst