a. The action or an act of quoting or referring to a passage, text, author, legal precedent, etc., esp. as an authority or in support of an argument; quotation.
b. A cited passage, a quotation.
c. A reference providing information about where a particular quotation, text, etc., is to be found; a bibliographical reference.
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