1. (noun)mention, reference 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"
2. (noun)citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation a shortnote 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"
3. (noun)reference point, point of reference, reference an indicator that orients you generally
"it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
4. (noun)reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
"he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
6. (noun)reference, denotation, extension the most direct or specificmeaning 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"
7. (noun)reference, consultation the act of referring or consulting
"reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
8. (noun)reference, source 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"
9. (noun)address, computer address, reference (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
10. (noun)reference 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"
11. (verb)reference, cite refer to
"he referenced his colleagues' work"
Definition of 'reference'
