quotation -
n. 1 the act or an instance of quoting or being quoted.
2 a passage or remark quoted.
3 Mus. a short passage or tune taken from one piece of
music to another.
4 Stock Exch. an
amount stated as the
current price of stocks or commodities.
5 a contractor's estimate.
quotation mark each of a set of punctuation marks, single (' ') or double (" "), used to mark the beginning and end of a quoted passage, a book title, etc., or words regarded as slang or jargon. [med.L quotatio (as QUOTE)]
