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Source may refer to:
[edit] 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 (Charmed), the common abbreviated title used as an everyday conversational 'use name' of a fictional evil being
—more properly: "The Source of All Evil"— in the popular 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
[edit] Finance
[edit] Information theory
- Source theory, any process that generates successive messages can be considered a source of information
- 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
[edit] Organizations
[edit] Religion
[edit] 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 sources
[edit] Technology
- Communication source
- 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 produces ions for mass spectrometry
- Light source, an object emitting light
- The original copy (or name) of a computer file that is being moved, copied or renamed.
- Open source, a philosophy of dissemination of intellectual products
- Point source, a natural or anthropogenic discharge location producing unwanted materials into the environment
- A SCSI endpoint
- Sound source, an object emitting sound
- Source code for software
- Source engine, a proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
- Source (transistor) , terminal in a field effect transistor
- The Source (online service), an online service provider founded in 1979
- The Source (sculpture), an electronic moving sculpture at the London Stock Exchange
- Voltage source, any device or system that produces an electromotive force between its terminals
[edit] Water and nature