Kivonat

Kivonat is a Hungarian noun meaning an extract, excerpt, summary or statement. The term derives from the verb kivon (to take out, extract) with the nominal suffix -at. In everyday usage it denotes portions taken from a larger whole, selected summaries or official records.

In administrative and legal contexts kivonat commonly refers to certified extracts of public registers, for example anyakönyvi kivonat (civil registry extract) used as an official copy of birth, marriage or death entries. Banks issue számlakivonat, a periodic account statement summarizing transactions and balances. In bibliographic and archival practice, kivonat may indicate an excerpt or abstract of a document or record.

In scientific, pharmaceutical and culinary contexts kivonat denotes a concentrate obtained from raw material, such as a plant extract or flavor extract (e.g., vanília-kivonat). These extracts are prepared by processes like solvent extraction, infusion, maceration or distillation and are used for research, medicinal preparations and food products.

In academic writing a kivonat is equivalent to an abstract or summary that condenses the main points of a study, article or thesis. In computing and data management the word can be applied to generated summaries or reports derived from larger datasets.

Related terms include kivonás (subtraction) and kivon(ni) (to extract); however, kivonás is a mathematical operation and should not be conflated with kivonat. The plural form in Hungarian is kivonatok. English translations depend on context and may include extract, excerpt, statement or abstract.