Overview

Origin

over + view

Noun

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

Full definition of overview

Verb

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
• 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice http://books.google.com/books?id=mtHEnnMKh3gC, ISBN 0870730150, page 313:Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.