montage
n. countablen. a collection of different images, sounds, or video clips put together to make one single work. In movies, you often see this when a long period of time is shown in just a few minutes.
n. a single composition created by juxtaposing or overlapping many separate elements, such as photographs, film clips, or musical fragments. In cinematography, it refers to a sequence that condenses time or information through rapid editing.
The movie features a training montage showing the hero getting stronger.
The documentary opens with a montage of historical news footage to set the scene for the 1960s.
The artist's latest installation is a complex montage of industrial sounds and urban photography, designed to evoke the chaotic energy of a modern metropolis.
, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).
Often used with 'of' to describe the constituent parts, such as a 'montage of photos' or a 'montage of clips'.