quotation

The act of quoting.

A passage quoted.

An explicit reference or allusion in an artistic work to a passage or element from another, usually well-known work.

The quoting of current prices and bids for securities and goods.

The prices or bids cited.

The act of quoting or citing.

That which is quoted; an expression, a statement, or a passage cited or repeated as the utterance of some other speaker or writer; a citation.

In com., the current price of commodities or stocks, published in prices-current, etc.

[Abbr. of quotation-quadrat.] In printing, a large hollow quadrat, usually of the size 3 × 4 picas, made for the larger blanks in printed matter.