Quote may refer to:
Computing
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String literal
string literal or anonymous string is a literal for a string value in the source code of a computer program. Modern programming languages commonly use a quoted sequence of characters, formally "bracketed delimiters", as in x = "foo", where , "foo ...
s, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in the source code
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Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting
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Quoted-printable
Quoted-Printable, or QP encoding, is a binary-to-text encoding system using printable ASCII characters (alphanumeric and the equals sign =) to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path or, generally, over a medium which is not 8-bit clean. Hi ...
, encoding method for data transmission
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Usenet quoting
When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.
The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the d ...
, the conventions used by Usenet and e-mail users when quoting a portion of the original message in a response message.
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Mention (blogging)
A mention (also known as @replies or tagging) is a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile. This may be done as a matter of getting the attention of (or drawing attention to) another user of a social networking or bl ...
, a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile
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Posting style
When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.
The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the d ...
, quoting the original message when a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet
Finance
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Financial quote
A financial quotation refers to specific market data relating to a security or commodity. While the term quote specifically refers to the bid price or ask price of an instrument, it may be more generically used to relate to the last price which t ...
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sales quote
A request for quotation (RfQ) is a business process in which a company or public entity requests a quote from a supplier for the purchase of specific products or services. RfQ generally means the same thing as Call for bids (CfB) and Invitati ...
, the 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
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Quote.com, a financial website
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Quote notation, representation of certain rational numbers
Media
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Quote... Unquote'', panel game on BBC Radio 4.
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''Quote'' (magazine), a Dutch magazine
* Quote, the protagonist of the 2004 platform game ''
Cave Story''
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Musical quotation
Musical quotation is the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition. The quotation may be from the same composer's work (self-referential), or from a different composer's work (appropriation).
Sometimes the quotation is done fo ...
, the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition
Places
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Quote, Missouri, a ghost town
Speech and written text
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Quotation
A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is intro ...
, the repetition of someone else's statement, beliefs or thoughts
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Quotation mark
Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the sam ...
s punctuation marks used in text to indicate a quotation
See also
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Quotation (disambiguation)
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