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the place where something begins, where it springs into being;
"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
"Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
"communism's Russian root"
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a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
"the reporter had two sources for the story"
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anything that provides inspiration for later work
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a facility where something is available
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a person who supplies information
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someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
"he was the generator of several complaints"
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(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
"a heat source"
"a source of carbon dioxide"
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anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;
"an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
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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"
