Summary may refer to:
Abstract (summary), shortening a passage or a write-up without changing its meaning but by using different words and sentencesAbridgement, the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter formExecutive summary, a short document or section of a document, produced for business purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports, in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it allSummary (law), which has several meanings in lawAutomatic summarization, the use of a computer program to produce an abstract or abridgement