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The person, place{{,}} or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

A reporter's informant.

(computing) Source code.

(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

(graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.

(category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.

To obtain or procure: {{non-gloss|used especially of a business resource.}}

To find information about (a quotation)'s source {{gloss|from which it comes}}: to find a citation for.