means A montage is a sequence of short shots or images edited together to compress time, suggest progress, or connect ideas quickly.

from Straight from French monter, 'to mount' or 'assemble' — montage literally means 'mounting' or 'putting together,' the same sense a builder or framer would use. It entered film vocabulary through early-20th-century cinema, especially the Soviet montage theorists like Eisenstein, who treated the cut between two images as the place where meaning is born. So a 'montage' is, at root, just stuff assembled — pieces mounted side by side until they become a story.