Excerption

//ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən// noun

Definitions

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

    "his excerptions out of Fathers"

  4. 4
    a passage selected from a larger work wordnet

Etymology

Latin excerptio.

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