(programming) An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function.

A compendium of information which is not intended to be read from beginning to end, and is compiled for ease of reference. Examples include encyclopedias and dictionaries.

plural of cross-reference

(semantics) The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void.

(data management) Data describing a physical or virtual object and its properties.

A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.

Act or process of referring to itself or oneself.

A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work.

(chemistry, physics) an electrode with a stable and accurately known electrode potential

(transitive) To provide something with a cross-reference. / To compare two or more sources of information.