Quotation

n. act of repeating the words of another person; citation, passage taken from another source; reference; commercial offer; statement of price, offer of a price; price that has been stated or offered

This article is about quoting. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark and Quotation mark, non-English usage; see also Financial quote. For the Wikipedia quotation templates, see .A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed (as by citation) to its original source.A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition.
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Noun
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"
(synonym) citation, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention
(hypernym) note, annotation, notation
(hyponym) photo credit
2. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
(synonym) quote, citation
(hypernym) excerpt, extract, selection
(hyponym) epigraph
(derivation) quote, cite
3. a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
(hypernym) statement
(derivation) quote
4. the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"
(hypernym) practice, pattern
(derivation) quote, cite

(n.)
The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.
  

(n.)
The act of quoting or citing.
  

(n.)
That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
  

(n.)
Quota; share.
  

(n.)
A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
  

Used in the context of general equities. Highest bid and lowest offer (asked ) price currently available on a security or a commodity. Insider market.