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| mention, reference | (n.) | 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" |
| acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference | (n.) | 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 cases" |
| point of reference, reference, reference point | (n.) | an indicator that orients you generally.; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" |
| book of facts, reference, reference book, reference work | (n.) | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts.; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" |
| character, character reference, reference | (n.) | 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 too often answered evasively" |
| denotation, extension, reference | (n.) | 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" |
| consultation, reference | (n.) | the act of referring or consulting.; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" |
| reference, source | (n.) | 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" |
| address, computer address, reference | (n.) | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored. |
| reference | (n.) | 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" |
| cite, reference | (v.) | refer to.; "he referenced his colleagues' work" |
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