0 a saying or a part of a poem, play, or book put at the beginning of a piece of writing to give the reader some idea of what the piece is about --
Each of the stories begins with an epigraph from a theoretical thinker.
Specifically excluded from epigraphy are the historical significance of an epigraph as a document and the artistic value of a literary composition.
A function is lower semicontinuous if and only if its epigraph is closed.
Any convex optimization problem can be transformed into minimizing (or maximizing) a linear function over a convex set by converting to the epigraph form.
Following the opening credits, the epigraph states that the film's story is non-factual.
Each section of the work opens with epigraph that consists of a collection of quotations pertinent to the addressed topic.
There is no authentic epigraph to aid the historian with its chronology.
This anti-globalisation movement slogan could form the epigraph of our debate.