reference
IPA: rˈɛfɝʌns
noun
- (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
- A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
- (often attributive) A reference work.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
- (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- (obsolete) Appeal.
verb
- To provide a list of references for (a text).
- To refer to, to use as a reference.
- To mention, to cite.
- (programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.
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