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source

Pronunciation: /sɔːs/

The English word “source” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
  2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
  3. A reporter's informant.
  4. Source code.
  5. The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  6. A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
  7. The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.

verb

  1. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
  2. To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Etymology

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.

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