Citation

1. n. A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
2. n. An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
3. n. The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.
4. n. Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.