Compendium vs Monograph - What's the difference?
compendium | monograph |
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
A list or collection of various items.
* 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
# (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
To write a monograph on (a subject).
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As nouns the difference between compendium and monograph
is that compendium is a short, complete summary; an abstract while monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.As a verb monograph is
to write a monograph on (a subject).compendium
English
(wikipedia compendium)Noun
(en-noun)- It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.
Derived terms
* compendialmonograph
English
(wikipedia monograph)Noun
(en noun)- I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.'' Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", ''The Atlantic Monthly , March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3,
pp. 22-24.
Verb
(en verb)citation