kwəuˈteɪʃən 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. øquotation 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)]