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The word source has more than one meaning:
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Information
- Source Edit: A software program for developers in which you can edit your source code regardless of the computer language.
- in research: a source of information referred to by citation (see primary source, secondary source, tertiary source, or outside source)
- An informant
Sciences
- an area of positive divergence, or more generally, including a negative source or sink, an area of non-zero divergence
- one of the terminals of a field-effect transistor (the others are the gate and drain terminals)
- in nature: the Water-source, see well
- the point of origin of a river; usually at a spring
- in acoustics: the sound source, mostly as noise, but also as useful music of an orchestra.
- Source code for software, see also Open source
Computers
- The Source engine: the name of the proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
- A SCSI endpoint
- Short name used by PC gamers for the version of Counter-Strike utilizing the Source engine, a packaged part of the the computer game, Half-Life 2.
Media and enetertainment
See also
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