literature | the profession or art of a writer, her place in literature is secure |
reference consultation | the act of referring or consulting, reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
reference grid | a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image or a map |
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 |
frame of reference frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning |
coordinate system frame of reference reference system reference frame | a system that uses coordinates to establish position |
source seed germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
reference denotation extension | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, the class of objects that an expression refers to, the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
reference | the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to, he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
inertial reference frame inertial frame | a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid |
literature lit | the humanistic study of a body of literature, he took a course in Russian lit |
comparative literature | study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation) |
source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
address computer address reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
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 |
literature | creative writing of recognized artistic value |
literature | published writings in a particular style on a particular subject, the technical literature, one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature |
reference book reference reference work book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
source book | a collection of historically important documents published together as a book |
reference manual | a manual containing information organized in a summary manner |
sapiential book wisdom book wisdom literature | any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom |
Talmudic literature | (Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings |
Sanskrit literature | Hindu literature written in Sanskrit |
Vedic literature Veda | (from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit, traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads |
source program | a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language |
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System MEDLARS | relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature |
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 |
character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
Bachelor of Literature BLitt | a bachelor's degree in literature |
Master of Literature MLitt | a master's degree in literature |
citation cite acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
mention reference | a remark that calls attention to something or someone, she made frequent mention of her promotion, there was no mention of it, the speaker made several references to his wife |
anatomical reference anatomical | an expression that relates to anatomy |
reference point point of reference reference | an indicator that orients you generally, it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved |
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 |
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 |
epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |
source | specify the origin of, The writer carefully sourced her report |