Definition of "overview"

overview

/ˈəʊ.vəˌvjuː/

noun
plural overviews
1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
  Quotations
  With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
  2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56
2. (obsolete) An inspection.
  Quotations
  Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
verb
third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed
1. (transitive) To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
  Quotations
  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.
  1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice‎, page 313