• the act of referring or consulting; "Reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
• 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 relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that Reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"
• 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 to often answered evasively"
• 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
• 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"
• an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a Reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
• 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"
• refer to; "he Referenced his colleagues'' work"

'Reference' in other languages