Usually means: Sources used to support content.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. references: Merriam-Webster
  2. references: Collins English Dictionary
  3. references: Vocabulary.com
  4. References, reference's, references: Wordnik
  5. references: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. references: Wiktionary
  7. references: Dictionary.com
  8. references: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. References: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. references: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. references: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. references: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. references: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. references: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. References: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. references: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REFERENCES: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reference)

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