From Middle English succinte, succynt, from Old French succinct, from Latin succinctus, perfect passive participle of succingō ("gird from below"), from sub + cingō ("gird, wrap, surround").

• IPA: /səkˈsɪŋkt/, /səˈsɪŋkt/

succinct

1. Brief and to the point.

   Synonyms: concise, laconic, Thesaurus:concise

   You should give clear, succinct information to the clients.

   • 1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., “Experience”, in Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC ↗, [https://https://books.google.com/books?id=HuUYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118 page 118]:

     But he made the truth very comfortable, and gave a succinct statement of the young man's brilliant beginnings.

   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC ↗:

     Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.

2. Compressed into a tiny area.

   Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.

3. (archaic) Wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.

• French: succinct
• German: bündig, knapp, kurz, lapidar, prägnant
• Portuguese: sucinto
• Russian: кра́ткий
• Spanish: sucinto

• German: kompakt
• Russian: сжа́тый