Source Explained

Source may refer to:

Research

• Source text, in research (especially in the humanities), a source of information referred to by citation
  • Primary source, firsthand written evidence of history made at the time of the event by someone who was present
  • Secondary source, written accounts of history based upon the evidence from primary sources
  • Tertiary source, compilations based upon primary and secondary sources

Organizations

• Source (UNSW), a community service provider that used to operate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
• The Source by Circuit City, a Canadian electronics store

Technology

• The Source, an online service provider founded in 1979
• Source, in hydrology, is the origin of water for a river or stream
• Source code for software, see also free software or open-source software
• A terminal in a field effect transistor
• Light source, an object emitting light
• Sound source, an object emitting sound
• Energy sources, are substances or processes with high concentrations of energy
• Voltage source, any device or system that produces an electromotive force between its terminals
• Current source, an electrical or electronic device that delivers or absorbs electric current
• Source engine, a proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
  • , a game utilizing the Source engine
  • , a game utilizing the Source engine
• A SCSI endpoint
• Communication source

Music

• The Source, a series of volumes by Graham Kendrick that are compilations of Christian church music
• The Source (album), an album by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
• The Source, an album by Ali Farka Touré
• The Source (musician), the production identity of UK electronic music record producer John Truelove
• "The Source", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
• Source, an album released by the band The Duskfall in 2003.

Film and television

• The Source (documentary), a 1999 documentary movie about the Beat generation
• The Source (film), a 2002 science fiction movie, also known as The Secret Craft in the UK and The Surge for its American DVD release
• The Source, the overarching entity in the machine city of the Matrix universe
• The Source (Charmed), a fictional evil being in the television series Charmed
• The Source, a character in the short-lived 1978 US television sitcom Quark
• , the fifth film in the Highlander franchise

Print

• The Source (novel), a 1965 novel by James A. Michener
• The Source (magazine), a magazine of hip-hop music and culture
• Source (comics), a sentient entity who provides advice to the New Gods in the DC Multiverse
• The Source, a book by Art Bell about paranormal matters
• SOURCE: Music of the Avant Garde, a magazine published by the American composer Larry Austin from 1967 to 1972

Media

• Journalism sourcing, a person, publication or other record or document that gives information
• The Source (network), a radio network operated in the 1970s and 1980s by NBC
• WVUR-FM, "The Source", Valparaiso University's student-run radio station

Other

• Source theory, any process that generates successive messages can be considered a source of information
• Sources of law, the materials and processes out of which law is developed
• Sources of international law, the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles regulating the international community are developed
• Source (river or stream), the original point from which the river flows
• Believers of the Source, a disbanded Faction of the Planescape universe