reference

IPA: rˈɛfɝʌns

(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.

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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