Source

The word source has more than one meaning:

in nature: the Water-source, see well
the point of origin of a river; usually at a spring
in acoustics: the sound source, mostly as noise, but also as useful music of an orchestra.
Source code for software, see also Open source
Supply-source for parts, see Primary source, Secondary source
one of the terminals of a field-effect transistor (the others are the gate and drain terminals)
A news source
An informant
A literature reference
A communication source
The name of the proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for Half-Life 2
A SCSI endpoint

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