light
light source | any device serving as a source of illumination, he stopped the car and turned off the lights |
| source | a facility where something is available |
| source of illumination | any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation |
ultraviolet lamp
ultraviolet source | any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation |
source
seed
germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
contagion
infection | the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people, a contagion of mirth, the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry |
| source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
| source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
| source book | a collection of historically important documents published together as a book |
| source program | a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language |
| source | a document (or organization) from which information is obtained, the reporter had two sources for the story |
| source materials | publications from which information is obtained |
| reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
infection
contagion
transmission | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted |
beginning
origin
root
rootage
source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
| point source | a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted |
quasar
quasi-stellar radio source | a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy, many have large red shifts |
| radio source | an object that radiates radio waves |
reservoir
source | anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies, an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival |
generator
source
author | someone who originates or causes or initiates something, he was the generator of several complaints |
informant
source | a person who supplies information |
| passive source | an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has |
| source | (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system, a heat source, a source of carbon dioxide |
contagious disease
contagion | any disease easily transmitted by contact |
| source | specify the origin of, The writer carefully sourced her report |
| source | get (a product) from another country or business, She sourced a supply of carpet, They are sourcing from smaller companies |
| open-source | of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available |