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reference

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Word definitions for reference in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to assign;" as "to provide with a reference," 1837 (implied in referenced ), from reference (n.). Related: Referencing .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science , a reference is a value that enables a program to indirectly access a particular datum , such as a variable or a record , in the computer 's memory or in some other storage device . The reference is said to refer to the datum, and accessing ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reference \Ref"er*ence\ (r?f"?r-ens), n. [See Refer .] The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance. That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book. Relation; ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn: cite ]

Usage examples of reference.

And, again, there is no reference to aborting a fetus, which was a known practice at the time.

Into it he had crammed a chair and minuscule table, desk-model accessor, and the accumulated reference materials and data of years of research.

Already a bit bewildered by their flurry of Classical references and Latin maxims, he was lost when Acer and George exchanged a few lines in French, watching out of the corner of their eyes to see if he had understood.

The reason is that the yellow pages are the prime reference for re- 4 actionary shopping.

Most of the crew suffered from some degree of nausea while adapting to microgravity, and those especially affected, such as AH Tillman and Alex Dyachkov, are still prone to attacks if they spin around too quickly, or if they find themselves without an absolute reference point.

Upon this subject, then, I will only say, that the present state of the law shall be carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with reference to the recent assumption of power deliberately considered.

Many years ago, advertisers were encouraged to reference their yellow page listings.

It has been stated often enough, but I will reiterate: Referencing your yellow page listing in other media advertising, such as newspaper or radio, is a terrible idea.

I will add with reference to myself, that these transactions show that, so far from being actuated by those motives of personal aggrandizement, with which I have been charged by persons of high station in another place, my object was, that others should occupy a post of honour, and that for myself I was willing to serve in any capacity, or without any official capacity, so as to enable the crown to carry on the government.

Blade filed the name of Thunor away for future reference, conceding that when in the land of Alb it might be as well to do as the Albians did, always within reason, of course.

Perhaps it was with some unconscious dread of this tedium that he made a sudden suggestion to Sir Alured in reference to Dresden.

Sir Henry Ancred, asks me to write to you in reference to a portrait of himself in the character of Macbeth, for which he would be pleased to engage your services.

Our people can use commercial software to do stand alone jobs or pull down the apps from our servers, or they can tap into our database, or into the huge databases on the Internet to pull in reference data.

He had to go through the big cruiser as though such a ship was familiar to him, he had to accept references to a thousand things which Zarth Arn would know, without betraying his ignorance.

But though these references may well explain why it was in fact in such and such a determined set of circumstances and in answer to such and such a precise question that these sciences were articulated, nevertheless, their intrinsic possibility, the simple fact that man, whether in isolation or as a group, and for the first time since human beings have existed and have lived together in societies, should have become the object of science - that cannot be considered or treated as a phenomenon of opinion: it is an event in the order of knowledge.