terseness

terse | American Dictionary

terse
adjective
us/tɜrs/
using few words:
He was shouting terse orders for vehicles to pull over.

tersely

adverbus/ˈtɜr·sli/
"Storm coming," he said tersely.

Examples of terse

terse
However, it will be convenient to give a terse summary of the notions of (bi)simulations, presented within our own framework.
The more sparse and terse the language became, the more space opened up for the visual and musical inventions.
One part of being terse is avoiding duplicated code.
Magnitudes, events, and event lists are described using class messages that create instances, or using immediate objects and the terse postfix operators demonstrated below.
I do not feel the lack of anything in this introduction except for breathing space; it is very terse and condensed.
This is a very terse book, only 159 pages, but it deals skilfully with a number of themes.
Scales of this type are terse, efficient, and seemingly straightforward in their application.
And its interpretation required the completion of two ellipses, one in each of its terse sentences.
Structure editing of a terse, expression-based language is painful, and we therefore decided to provide a simple text editor within the system.
In part, then, this is a work of history (and certain admirably terse passages of historical summary suggest the hand of the professional historian).
This section assumes the reader has read the previous translation and is therefore somewhat more terse.
This style is terse, and well-adapted for proving properties, but does not usually suggest a type inference algorithm.
The information assessing the national condition was relatively terse as well.
Indeed, its terse, direct expression imparts its own specific quality.
This terse record refers to extraordinary events surrounding this woman.
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