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e·pit·o·me (ĭ-pĭt́ə-mē)

[Latin epitomē, a summary, from Greek, an abridgment, from epitemnein, to cut short, epi-, epi-, + temnein, to cut.]

noun 

  1. A representative or perfect example of a class or type: “He is seen . . . as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual” (Paul Kennedy)
  2. A brief summary, as of a book or article; an abstract.