Source may refer to:

Research

  • Historical source
  • Source (intelligence) or sub source, typically a confidential provider of non open-source intelligence<!--must dab 2nd incoming term-->
  • Source (journalism), a person, publication, publishing institute or other record or document that gives information
  • Source document, a document in which data collected for a clinical trial is first recorded
  • Source text, in research (especially in the humanities), a source of information referred to by citation
  • Primary source, a first-hand written evidence of history made at the time of the event by someone who was present
  • Secondary source, a written account of history based upon the evidence from primary sources
  • Tertiary source, a compilation based upon primary and secondary sources
  • Sources (website), a directory of expert contacts and media spokespersons
  • Open source, a philosophy of dissemination of intellectual products

Law

  • Sources of international law, the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles regulating the international community are developed
  • Sources of law, the materials and processes out of which law is developed

Mathematics and physics

  • Sources and sinks a general mathematical analogy used in science
  • Source of a morphism
  • Source, a point where the divergence of a vector field is positive
  • Source of a representation, in finite group theory
  • Source, a terminal in a field-effect transistor
  • Current source, an electrical or electronic device that delivers or absorbs electric current
  • Energy sources, substances or processes with high concentrations of energy
  • Ion source, a device that creates atomic and molecular ions
  • Light source, an object emitting light
  • Point source, a single identifiable localised source of something
  • Radioactive source, a known quantity of a radionuclide which emits ionizing radiation
  • Sound source, an object emitting sound
  • Voltage source, any device or system that produces an electromotive force between its terminals

Computing and technology

  • Source (command), a UNIX command to execute commands from a file
  • Communication source, objects which encode message data and transmit the information
  • Source code, a file containing code for software written in a programming language
  • Source theory, any process that generates successive messages in information theory
  • Source (programming language), a family of sublanguages of JavaScript to support Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Adaptation

Earth and life sciences

  • Inflow (hydrology), the source of the water in a lake
  • Source (hydrology), the original point from which a river or stream flows
  • Source rocks, rocks that have generated, or are capable of generating hydrocarbons
  • Source tissue, plant tissue serving as a source of nutrients; for example see Somatic embryogenesis

Art and entertainment

Fictional entities

  • Source (comics), a sentient entity who provides advice to the New Gods in the DC Multiverse

Games

  • Source (game engine), a game engine developed by Valve
  • Source 2, the successor to Source
  • Counter-Strike: Source, a 2004 complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine
  • Day of Defeat: Source, a 2005 complete remake of Day of Defeat using the Source game engine

Music

  • Source (album), a 2020 album by Nubya Garcia, or the title song
  • Source, a 2003 album by the Duskfall
  • "Source", a song by Tycho from his 2016 album Epoch

Periodicals

  • Source (lifestyle magazine), a bi-monthly magazine published by the John Lewis Partnership
  • Source (photography magazine), a quarterly photography magazine
  • Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, published by the Shalom Hartman Institute

Visual arts

  • Source (1/3), public artwork by U.S. artist Tony Smith

Organizations

  • Source (UNSW), a community service provider that used to operate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
  • Source Family (1922–1975), a commune outside of 1970's Hollywood
  • Source Vagabond Systems, an Israeli manufacturer using the brand "SOURCE"

Places

  • natural spring
  • headwaters
  • Les Sources (), Estrie, Quebec, Canada; a regional county municipality
  • Des Sources station (), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a light rail station
  • Boulevard Des Sources (), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a large street

Other uses

  • Operation Source, a series of attacks on German warships in 1943
  • Absolute (philosophy), or the source, as the absolute principle of being

See also

  • The Source (disambiguation)
  • Begin (disambiguation)
  • La Source (disambiguation)
  • Source language (disambiguation)
  • Sourceror (disambiguation)
  • Sourcing (disambiguation)
  • Start (disambiguation)
  • Wikisource, an online library of free content textual sources