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Meaning of quotation

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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" [syn: {citation},
           {cite}, {acknowledgment}, {credit}, {reference}, {mention},
           {quotation}]
      2: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn:
         {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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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