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 |
nitrogen narcosis | confused or stuporous state caused by high levels of dissolved nitrogen in the blood, deep-sea divers can suffer nitrogen narcosis from breathing air under high pressure |
source seed germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
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 |
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 |
nitrogen cycle | the circulation of nitrogen, nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil |
nitrogen fixation | the assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil bacteria and its release for plant use on the death of the bacteria |
source | (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system, a heat source, a source of carbon dioxide |
nitrogen balance | the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted) |
nitrogen N atomic number | a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas, constitutes percent of the atmosphere by volume, a constituent of all living tissues |
nitrogen oxide | any of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials, present in car exhausts |
nitrogen dioxide | a highly poisonous brown gas (NO) |
liquid nitrogen | nitrogen in a liquid state |
nitrogen mustard | a toxic compound resembling mustard gas in structure, important in cancer treatment |
nitrogen trichloride Agene | a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour |
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 |
nitrogen-fixing | contributing to the process of nitrogen fixation |
nitrogenous nitrogen-bearing | of or relating to or containing nitrogen |
open-source | of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available |