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
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
Film and television
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