A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: ex·cerpt·ed, ex·cerpt·ing, ex·cerpts (k-sûrpt)1. To select or use (a passage or segment from a longer work). 2. To select or use material from (a longer work).
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English, excerpted, from Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere, to pick out : ex-, ex- + carpere, to pluck; see kerp- in Appendix I.
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