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Synonyms: sourde, souce, sorce, fource

Antonyms: sourde, souce, sorce, fource

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Noun

1. The [[person]], [[place]]{{,}} or [[thing]] from which something (information, goods, etc.) [[come]]s or is [[acquire]]d.
2. [[spring|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. {{lb|en|computing}} [[source code|Source code]].
5. {{lb|en|electronics}} The name of one [[terminal]] of a [[field effect]] [[transistor]] ([[FET]]).
6. {{lb|en|graph theory}} A [[node]] in a [[directed graph]] whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
7. {{lb|en|mathematics|category theory}} The [[domain]] of a function; the [[object]] which a [[morphism]] points from.

Verb

1. To [[obtain]] or [[procure]]: {{non-gloss|used especially of a [[business]] [[resource]].}}
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To find information about (a [[quotation]])'s source {{gloss|from which it comes}}: to find a [[citation]] for.

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