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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• Historical document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

• Inflow (hydrology), the source of the water in a lake
• Source (hydrology), the original point from which a river or stream flows
• Source rocks, rocks that have generated, or are capable of generating hydrocarbons
• Source tissue, plant tissue serving as a source of nutrients; for example see Somatic embryogenesis

Art and entertainment

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"
• The Source (online service), an online service provider founded in 1979
• The Source (retailer), a Canadian electronics store

Places

• natural spring
• headwaters
• Les Sources (English: Sources), Estrie, Quebec, Canada; a regional county municipality
• Des Sources station (English: Sources station), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a light rail station
• Boulevard Des Sources (English: Sources Boulevard), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a large street

Other uses

• Operation Source, a series of attacks on German warships in 1943
• Absolute (philosophy), or the source, as the absolute principle of being

See also

Search for "source" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles beginning with Source
• All pages with titles containing Source
• Begin (disambiguation)
• La Source (disambiguation)
• Source language (disambiguation)
• Sourceror (disambiguation)
• Sourcing (disambiguation)
• Start (disambiguation)
• Wikisource, an online library of free content textual sources