Quote

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Quotation is used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer.

In speech and written text, quote can also refer to:

• Nested quotation, quotation inside a quotation
• Block quotation and Pull quotes, methods to highlight quotations in texts or on web pages
• Quotation mark glyphs, air quotes, and scare quotes, punctuation marks and their usage
• Quotation mining, compiling quotations
• Quoting out of context, a form of fallacy
• Use-mention distinction and quasi-quotation, the philosophical distinction between mentioning a word and using it to denote a thing or idea

In computing, quote can refer to:

• String literals, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in source code
• Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting
• Quoted-printable, encoding method for data transmission

Quote can also refer to:

• Financial quote or sales quote, commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single transaction by one party from another for a defined price
• Quote.com, a financial website
• Quote (Cave Story), main fictional character
• Quote notation, representation of certain rational numbers
• Quote... Unquote, panel game on BBC Radio 4

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