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source
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.