What does "excerption" mean?

The act of excerpting or selecting.

What is a synonym for "excerption"?

Common synonyms include: excerpt, excerpting, extract, extraction, passage, selection.

Pronounced //ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən//.

/ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/ noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
The act of excerpting or selecting. countable, uncountable
2
The act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work. wordnet
3
Something which is selected or gleaned; an extract (of text, audio, data etc.). countable, uncountable
"his excerptions out of Fathers"
4
a passage selected from a larger work wordnet

Latin excerptio.