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Meaning of citation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  citation
      n 1: an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given
           as formal public statement [syn: {citation},
           {commendation}]
      2: (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written
         passages or legal precedents etc.)
      3: 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" [syn: {citation}, {cite},
         {acknowledgment}, {credit}, {reference}, {mention},
         {quotation}]
      4: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn:
         {quotation}, {quote}, {citation}]
      5: a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a
         proceeding
      6: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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