Source
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[edit] Information
[edit] Information theory
[edit] Law
[edit] Organizations
- Source, a community service provider that operates at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
[edit] 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
[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.
- 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
[edit] 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 and a major center of the gamer community in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.
- The Source is a sentient entity who provides advice to the New Gods in the DC Multiverse
- "The Source", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
[edit] Media
- In journalism, a source is a person, publication or other record or document that gives information.
- 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
[edit] 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.
- The Source is the source of all that exists in the DC Universe.
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