Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)excerpt, excerption, extract, selectiona passage selected from a larger work“he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings”
(n)excerptionThe act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work.“But the phenomenon of excerption can help us create a possible scenario for how the commentary preserved in Berol. 9780, a papyrus from Hermoupolis dating to the second century C.E., was created.”