əkˈnɑl.ɪd͡ʒ.mənt əkˈnɒl.ɪd͡ʒ.mənt əˈdɹɛs ˈkɛɹ(ə)ktɚ ˈkæɹəktə ˌsaɪˈteɪʃn̩ ˌsaɪˈteɪʃən ˌkɒnsl̩ˈteɪʃən ˌkɑnsl̩ˈteɪʃən ˈkɹɛdɪt ˌdiː.noʊˈteɪ.ʃən ɪkˈstɛnʃən ˈmɛnʃən kwoʊˈteɪʃən ˈɹɛf.(ə)ɹəns ˈɹɛf.(ə)ɹəns sɔɹs sɔːs the act of referring or consulting reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer refer to he referenced his colleagues' work 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 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 (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic 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 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 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 an indicator that orients you generally it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved 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