Montage
Etymology
French "montage" (a mounting, assembling), from "monter" (to mount). Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s, especially Eisenstein, gave it its charged theoretical sense — that cutting two shots together produces an idea neither shot contains alone.
noun · /mon-TAHZH/
A sequence of short shots edited together to compress time or build meaning through juxtaposition.
What it names
Both the everyday "training montage" and a deeper idea from film theory: that meaning can arise from the collision of images, not just from what each image shows.
Example
A quick montage of packed suitcases, ticking clocks, and passport stamps tells you the whole trip in ten seconds.
Related idea
A montage is a built sequence of many shots creating an effect over time; a jump cut is a single abrupt edit within what should be continuous action. Montage assembles; the jump cut disrupts.