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Annotation vs Quotation - What's the difference?

annotation | quotation |

As nouns the difference between annotation and quotation

is that annotation is a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis while quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc, may be quoted.

annotation

English

Noun

(wikipedia annotation) (en noun)
  • a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis
  • a comment added to a text
  • the process of writing such comment or commentary
  • (computing) metadata added to a document or program
  • (genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases
  • quotation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
  • "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
  • The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
  • Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.

    Synonyms

    * quote * citation

    Derived terms

    * quotation mark * RFQ (request for quotation)