A quotation is an anonymous function (a value denoting a snippet of code) which can be used as a value and called using the Fundamental combinators.

Quotation literals appearing in source code are delimited by square brackets, for example [ 2 + ]; see Quotation syntax for details on their syntax.

Quotations form a class of objects:

quotation

quotation? ( object -- ? )

A more general class is provided for methods to dispatch on that includes quotations, curry, and compose objects:

callable

Quotations evaluate sequentially from beginning to end. Literals are pushed on the stack and words are executed. Details can be found in Stack machine model. Words can be placed in wrappers to suppress execution:
Wrappers

Quotations implement the Sequence protocol, and existing sequences can be converted into quotations:

>quotation ( seq -- quot )

1quotation ( obj -- quot )

Although quotations can be treated as sequences, the compiler will be unable to reason about quotations manipulated as sequences at runtime. Compositional combinators are provided for runtime partial application and composition of quotations.