Usually means: Citation or mention for information.
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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word reference:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. reference: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reference: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reference: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reference: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reference: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reference, reference: Wordnik
  7. reference: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reference: Wiktionary
  9. reference: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reference: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reference: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reference: Dictionary.com
  13. reference: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reference: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reference (computer science), Reference (disambiguation), Reference: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reference: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reference: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reference: Rhymezone
  19. reference: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reference: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reference: Free Dictionary
  22. Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference, Reference: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. reference: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reference: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. reference: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  5. Reference: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Reference (work), reference: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reference: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Reference: Game Dictionary
  3. Reference (computer science), reference: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. reference: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. reference: Idioms
  3. reference: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See referenced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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