0 the most important pieces of information about something, or general information without details:
That was the gist of what he said.
I think I got (= understood) the gist of what she was saying.
1 the main subject, without details, of a piece of information:
By early adolescence, gists or principles governing social exchange are typically encoded in the social-cognitive repertoire of normal subjects.
The gist of the policy was that new industrial units and expansion of existing units on the island and suburbs would be strongly discouraged.
In other words, subjects recalled propositional content (or gist) with similar levels of accuracy across two types of tasks (immediate and delayed recall).
The gist of affine equivalence techniques is to use these estimates in combination with the pullback formulas (2.16)-(2.19) for vector proxies.
Despite predictable pitfalls, reliance on gist across superficially different problems is essential for achieving descriptive invariance - the fundamental criterion of rationality.
Their recommendations on the aged poor help to give the gist of their views.
Evidence indicating enhanced memory for the gist of emotional events is reviewed as are psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this enhancement.
This gives the gist of the narrative, but does not cover many other important aspects of the unfolding tragedy of the war.
