Source Explained
Source may refer to:
Research
- Historical document
- Historical source
- Source (intelligence) or sub source, typically a confidential provider of non open-source intelligence
- Source (journalism), a person, publication, publishing institute or other record or document that gives information
- Source document, a document in which data collected for a clinical trial is first recorded
- Source text, in research (especially in the humanities), a source of information referred to by citation
- Primary source, a first-hand written evidence of history made at the time of the event by someone who was present
- Secondary source, a written account of history based upon the evidence from primary sources
- Tertiary source, a compilation based upon primary and secondary sources
- Sources (website), a directory of expert contacts and media spokespersons
- Open source, a philosophy of dissemination of intellectual products
Law
- Sources of international law, the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles regulating the international community are developed
- Sources of law, the materials and processes out of which law is developed
Mathematics and physics
- Source of a morphism
- Source, a point where the divergence of a vector field is positive
- Source of a representation, in finite group theory
- Source, a terminal in a field-effect transistor
- Current source, an electrical or electronic device that delivers or absorbs electric current
- Energy sources, substances or processes with high concentrations of energy
- Ion source, a device that creates atomic and molecular ions
- Light source, an object emitting light
- Point source, a single identifiable localised source of something
- Radioactive source, a known quantity of a radionuclide which emits ionizing radiation
- Sound source, an object emitting sound
- Voltage source, any device or system that produces an electromotive force between its terminals
Computing and technology
- Source (command), a UNIX command to execute commands from a file
- Communication source, objects which encode message data and transmit the information
- Source code, a file containing code for software written in a programming language
- Source theory, any process that generates successive messages in information theory
- Source (programming language), a family of sublanguages of JavaScript to support Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Adaptation
Earth and life sciences
Art and entertainment
Fictional entities
- Source (comics), a sentient entity who provides advice to the New Gods in the DC Multiverse
Games
- Source (game engine), a game engine developed by Valve
- , a 2004 complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine
- , a 2005 complete remake of Day of Defeat using the Source game engine
Music
- Source (album), a 2020 album by Nubya Garcia, or the title song
- "Source", a song by Tycho from his 2016 album Epoch
Periodicals
Visual arts
Organizations
- Source (UNSW), a community service provider that used to operate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
- Source Family (1922–1975), a commune outside of 1970's Hollywood
- Source Vagabond Systems, an Israeli manufacturer using the brand "SOURCE"
Places
Other uses
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