How to pronounce “reference”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
• A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
• Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
• (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
• (often attributive) A reference work.
• The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
• (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
• (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
• (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
• (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
• (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
• (obsolete) Appeal.
• [Verb]
• To provide a list of references for (a text).
• (occasionally proscribed) To cite, to use as a reference.
• (sometimes proscribed) To mention, to refer to.
• (programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.

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