précis

This term carries a formal, academic, or professional connotation, often associated with rigorous intellectual distillation. It implies a structured reduction of a text that preserves the original logic and proportion, rather than a casual summary or a mere list of highlights. As a noun, it is an invariant form in English, meaning the singular and plural forms are identical. One does not add an s to make it plural; instead, the context or a determiner indicates whether one or multiple summaries are being discussed.