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The word source has more than one meaning:

Information

• Journalism sourcing
• Independent sources (in journalism, criminal justice, and research)
• Source texts: in research, a source of information referred to by citation. For details see
  • primary source
  • secondary source
  • tertiary source.

Information theory

• Information Source

Law

• Sources of law
• Sources of international law

Organizations

• Source, a community service provider that operates at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Sciences

• Source (river or stream), the origin of a river or stream, usually a lake, a spring or headwaters
• an area of positive divergence, or more generally, including a negative source or sink, an area of non-zero divergence
• in electronics, the origin of electrical energy or signals; the opposite of a load
• one of the terminals of a field-effect transistor (the others are the gate and drain terminals)
• in air pollution: an emissions source of air pollutants
• in acoustics: the sound source, mostly as noise, but also as intended sound such as music

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.
• The Source engine, a proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
• Short name used by PC gamers for the version of Counter-Strike utilizing the Source engine
• Common name for modifications of the source engine, usually when it is a previous mod or game that has been rebuilt for source, for example Day of Defeat:Source
• A SCSI endpoint
• Communication source

Arts

• Source (singer), a singer from Japan
• The Source is a series of volumes by Graham Kendrick that are compilations of Christian church music.
• The Source is an album by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.
• The Source is an album by Ali Farka Touré.
• The Source is the production identity of UK electronic music record producer John Truelove.
• The Source is a band from the UK rock music.
• The Source is a Norwegian jazz quartet.

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

• The Source is a 1967 novel by James A. Michener.
• The Source is a magazine of hip-hop music and culture.
• The Source is an influential wargaming and role-playing game store in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
• The Source is a sentient entity who provides advice to the New Gods in the DC Multiverse

Media

• The Source was a radio network operated in the 1970s and 1980s by NBC.
• The Source is Valparaiso University's student-run radio station.
• The Source is a residential Christian programme run by Love In Action

Various

• The Source is a book by Art Bell about paranormal matters.
• The Source is the power that the Godsmen worship in the Planescape universe.
• The Source is the name of what is considered to be one of the world's hottest hot sauces, at 7.1 million Scoville units.
• The Source was 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.
• The Source by Circuit City is a Canadian electronics store.

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