excerption

noun

1. The act of excerpting or selecting.

2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

3. A passage selected from a larger work

   “he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings”

   Similar: excerpt, extract, selection

4. The 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.”