Hypertext Webster Gateway: "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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quotation
n 1: a short note acknowledging a source of information or
quoting a passage; "the student's essay failed to list
several important citations"; "the article includes
mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: {citation}, {credit},
{reference}, {mention}]
2: a passage or expression that is quoted [syn: {quote}]
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