Source

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Contents 1 Research 2 Organizations 3 Technology 4 Music 5 Film and television 6 Print 7 Media 8 Other

Source may refer to:

[edit] 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

[edit] Organizations

• Source (UNSW), a community service provider that used to operate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
• Source Comics and Games, an influential wargaming and role-playing game store in Falcon Heights, Minnesota and a major center of the gamer community in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area
• The Source by Circuit City, a Canadian electronics store
• The Creative Source, a creative services studio of writer, designer and illustrator from a single point of origin - The Creative Source

[edit] Technology

• Source code for software, see also free software or open-source software
• The Source (service), an online service provider founded in 1978
• A terminal in a field effect transistor
• Light sources, an object emitting light
• 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
  • Counter-Strike: Source, a game utilizing the Source engine
  • Day of Defeat: Source, a game utilizing the Source engine
• A SCSI endpoint
• Communication source

[edit] Music

• Source (singer), a singer from Japan
• 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 (Ali Farka Touré album), an album by Ali Farka Touré
• The Source (musician), the production identity of UK electronic music record producer John Truelove
• The Source (jazz quartet), a Norwegian jazz quartet
• "The Source", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

[edit] 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

[edit] Print

• The Source (novel), a 1967 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• Source (Druidism), where according to Druidism everything is created, including the Gods
• Believers of the Source, a disbanded Faction of the Planescape universe
• The Source (hot sauce), considered to be one of the world's hottest hot sauces at 7.1 million Scoville units
• The Source (spy), an Egyptian double-agent in the 1970s who claimed to be working for the Mossad, and fed Israel false information just prior to the Yom Kippur War