Source
Source could mean:
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 source.
Organizations
- Source (UNSW), a community service provider that used to operate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
- The Source by Circuit City, a Canadian electronics store
Technology
- Source, in hydrology, is the origin of water for a river or stream
- 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 source, an object emitting light
- Sound source, an object emitting sound
- 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
Music
- 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, an album by Ali Farka Touré
- The Source (musician), the production identity of UK electronic music record producer John Truelove
- "The Source", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
- Source, an album released by the band The Duskfall in 2003.
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
- Highlander: The Source, the fifth film in the Highlander franchise
- 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
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
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
- Believers of the Source, a disbanded Faction of the Planescape universe