1. (

• citation ,
• cite ,
• acknowledgment ,
• credit ,
• reference ,
• mention ,
• quotation ,

) 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" ;

2. (

• quotation ,
• quote ,
• citation ,

) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited ;

3. (

• quotation ,

) a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity ;

4. (

• quotation

) the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation" ;