compendium
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compendium/kəmˈpendiəm/
▶noun (pl. compendiums or compendia /-dɪə/)
- 1 a book or other publication containing a collection of information about a subject.
- 2 a collection of similar items.
■ a package of stationery for writing letters.
– origin C16: from L., ‘profit, saving’ (lit. ‘what is weighed together’), from compendere ‘weigh together’.
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