Dictionary
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" 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" an indicator that orients you generally "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" 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" 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" the act of referring or consulting "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" 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" (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored 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" refer to "he referenced his colleagues' work"
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Wikipedia
In general, a reference is something that refers or points to something else, or acts as a connection or a link between two things. The objects it links may be concrete, such as books or locations, or abstract, such as data, thoughts, or memories. The object which is named by a reference, or to which the reference points, is the referent.The term reference is used with different specialized meanings in a variety of fields, as follows:
Semantics - In semantics, reference is generally construed as the relation between nouns or pronouns and objects that are named by them. Hence the word "John" ''refers'' to John; the word "it" refers to some previously specified object. The objects referred to are called the "referents" of the word. Sometimes the word-object relation is called !"denotation".Referen ce? is not in general the same as meaning, as words can often be meaningful without having a referent. Fictional and mythological names such as "Bo-Peep" and "Hercules" show that this is possible. As Gottlob FregeFrege discovered, reference cannot be treated as identical with meaning: "Hesperos" (an ancient Greek name for the evening star) and "Phosphorus" (an ancient Greek name for the morning star) both refer to Venus (planet)Venus, but the astronomical fact that '"Hesperos" is "Phosphorus"' can still be informative, even if the 'meanings' of both "Hesperos" and "Phosphorus" are already known. This problem led Frege to distinguish between the sense and referencesense of a word and its reference.
Art - In Art, a reference is an item from which a work is based. This may include an existing artwork, a reproduced (i.e. photo) or directly observed (i.e. person) object, or the artist's memory.
Computer science - In computer science, reference (computer science)references are datatypes which refer to an object elsewhere in memory, and are used to construct a wide variety of data structures such as linked lists. Most programming languages support some form of reference. See reference (computer science).The C plus plusC++ programming language has a specific type of reference also referred to as a ''reference''; see reference (C Plus Plus).
Geometry - A reference point is a location used to describe another one, by giving the relative position. Similarly we have the concept of frame of reference (both in physics and figuratively), etc.
Libraries - In a library, the word ''reference'' may refer to a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other reference work that contains many brief articles that cover a broad scope of knowledge in one book, or a set of books. However, the word ''reference'' is also used to mean a book that cannot be taken from the room, or from the building. Many of the books in the ''reference department'' of a library are reference works, but some are books that are simply too large or valuable to loan out. Conversely, selected reference works may be shelved with other library circulationcirculating books, and may be loaned out.
Scholarship - A reference may also be a text (not necessarily a reference text) that has been used in the creation of a piece of work such as an essay, report, or oration. Its primary purpose is to allow people who receive such work to examine the author's sources, either for validity, or simply to learn more about the subject. Such items are often listed at the end of an article or book in a reference list.Copying of copyrighted material without required permisions amounts to 'plagiarism'.
Personal references - A reference is a written letter from someone that a job applicant knows that informs a prospective employer of what sort of charactersitics the applicant possesses. Usually, the reference is a bossprevious superior or has some distinguishable profession in government, clergy, or education that can professionally vouch for the submitting person's employability.<---note to wikipedia - the previous definition referred to a !"referee"--->
Canadian law - A Reference questionReference is a procedure through which the government of Canada can submit legal questions to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court will consider the question and publish an opinion which is treated as binding in law.
See also - Library reference desk List of reference tables Reference work Self-reference Category:Reference Category:Reference management software !de:Referenzgl:Referenciaia:Ref erentiahe:רפרנט
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Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.
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