The phrase "a terse description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to convey information in a brief and concise manner, often to summarize something without unnecessary details.
Example: "The report included a terse description of the project's objectives, making it easy for stakeholders to understand the main goals."
Alternatives: "a brief summary" or "a concise explanation."
An inability to read the non-verbal signs, and to translate an often terse description from the young person into a coherent picture of their internal emotional state, left many GPs either relying on the accompanying parent or closing down the consultation.
FORM & FUNCTION When Alessi first marketed a tea kettle designed by Michael Graves, it was written off by a New Yorker writer a decade or so ago with the terse description: It costs $150, and it boils water.
23 Catherine Street, London WC2, 020-7836 3680 Asked what I'd eat for my last meal on Earth, there's every chance it might have to include the Ibérico pork burger from Opera Tavern, a far more complex dish than its terse description suggests.
Under the circumstances, Beckett's words sounded less like an existentialist cri de coeur than like a terse topographic description.
But in 1982 his terse description sparked the interest of a British air-force officer and long-distance runner called John Foden, who wondered if it really was possible to run from Athens to Sparta and arrive the next day.
I'll spare you the ample tales of their cruelty and give this one terse description of their archery prowess: "From fifty yards a warrior could reliably hit an object the size of a doorknob four out of five times".
"Unpleasant" was the terse description that one adviser used for the feeling when the first voter polls came in.
"[The] terse description in Apple's announcement yesterday had some of the internet's top crypto experts wondering aloud about the exact nature of the bug.
Hutchison's terse description pales, of course, in comparison to the detail of Tolkien's, but the two, nevertheless, describe the same bond to be found between an officer and his batman in combat.
His only book, Tropic Death (1926), a collection of short stories set against a lush Caribbean backdrop, juxtaposes impressionistic images of natural beauty with terse descriptions of misery and death in such stories as "The Yellow One", "The Palm Porch", and "Subjection".
