succinct
Etymology

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").

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /səkˈsɪŋkt/, /səˈsɪŋkt/
Adjective

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.
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