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English Dictionary: Quotation by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Quotation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quotation
n
  1. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
    Synonym(s): citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation
  2. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
    Synonym(s): quotation, quote, citation
  3. a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
  4. the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quotation \Quo*ta"tion\, n. [From {Quote}.]
      1. The act of quoting or citing.
  
      2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing
            named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
            --Locke.
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