Source

**Source** could mean:

## Research

- Source text, in research (especially in the humanities), a source of information referred to by citation
    - Primary source, firsthand written evidence of history made at the time of the event by someone who was present
    - Secondary source, written accounts of history based upon the evidence from primary sources
    - Tertiary source, compilations based upon primary and secondary source.

## Organizations

- Source (UNSW), a community service provider that used to operate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
- The Source by Circuit City, a Canadian electronics store

## Technology

- Source, in hydrology, is the origin of water for a river or stream
- Source code for software, see also free software or open-source software
- The Source (service), an online service provider founded in 1978
- A terminal in a field effect transistor
- Light source, an object emitting light
- Sound source, an object emitting sound
- Energy sources, are substances or processes with high concentrations of energy
- Voltage source, any device or system that produces an electromotive force between its terminals
- Current source, an electrical or electronic device that delivers or absorbs electric current
- Source engine, a proprietary game engine developed by Valve Software for _Half-Life 2_
    - _Counter-Strike: Source_, a game utilizing the Source engine
    - _Day of Defeat: Source_, a game utilizing the Source engine
- A SCSI endpoint
- Communication source

## Music

- _The Source_, a series of volumes by Graham Kendrick that are compilations of Christian church music
- _The Source (album)_, an album by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
- _The Source_, an album by Ali Farka Touré
- The Source (musician), the production identity of UK electronic music record producer John Truelove
- "The Source", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album _There's Nothing Wrong with Love_
- _Source_, an album released by the band The Duskfall in 2003.

## Film and television

- _The Source (documentary)_, a 1999 documentary movie about the Beat generation
- _The Source (film)_, a 2002 science fiction movie, also known as _The Secret Craft_ in the UK and _The Surge_ for its American DVD release
- The Source, the overarching entity in the machine city of the Matrix universe
- The Source (Charmed), a fictional evil being in the television series _Charmed_
- The Source, a character in the short-lived 1978 US television sitcom _Quark_
- _Highlander: The Source_, the fifth film in the Highlander franchise

## Print

- _The Source (novel)_, a 1967 novel by James A. Michener
- _The Source (magazine)_, a magazine of hip-hop music and culture
- Source (comics), a sentient entity who provides advice to the New Gods in the DC Multiverse
- _The Source_, a book by Art Bell about paranormal matters

## Media

- Journalism sourcing, a person, publication or other record or document that gives information
- The Source (network), a radio network operated in the 1970s and 1980s by NBC
- WVUR-FM, "The Source", Valparaiso University's student-run radio station

## Other

- Source theory, any process that generates successive messages can be considered a source of information
- Sources of law, the materials and processes out of which law is developed
- Sources of international law, the materials and processes out of which the rules and principles regulating the international community are developed
- Source (river or stream), the original point from which the river flows
- Believers of the Source, a disbanded Faction of the Planescape universe