(programming) Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other translator, or to be carried out directly by an interpreter.

(software) Of or relating to a product which is licensed to permit modifications and redistribution of its source code, as per The Open Source Definition.

(transitive) To release the source code of.

(software) The practice of providing open-source code for a product. / (software) Open-source software in general. / (espionage) Information that is in the public domain and available to everybody.

Alternative form of open-source

A source of illumination.

(chiefly software) Whose constituent makeup, or source code, is not made publicly available.

(linguistics, translation studies) The language from which a translation is done. / (computing) The language of the source code to be compiled.

(sciences) a source of pollution, radiation, waves, fluid or other substance that has one specific location (and negligible physical extent, distinguishing a point source from other source geometries). In simulations they can often be approximated using mathematical point sources.

plural of source code