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n. [very common] In reference to software, source is invariably shorthand for source code , the preferred human-readable and human-modifiable form of the program. This is as opposed to object code, the derived binary executable form of a program. This shorthand readily takes derivative forms; one may speak of the sources of a system or of having source.