- citation, 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"
--1 is a kind of note, annotation, notation
--1 has particulars: photo credit; cross-reference, cross-index - quotation, quote, citation - a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
--2 is a kind of excerpt, extract, selection
--2 has particulars: epigraph; mimesis; misquotationDerived form: verb quote1 - quotation - a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
--3 is a kind of statement
Derived form: verb quote2 - quotation - the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"
--4 is a kind of practice, pattern
Derived form: verb quote1