1.AdjectiveConcise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
"A summary review is in the appendix."
2.AdjectivePerformed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
"They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people."
3.AdjectivePerformed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
"The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.; The summary executions caused outrage."
4.NounAn abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
"I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.; make a summary of the events"