Also known as a sender or a transmitter, a source is a device that originates, or generates, an information transfer to one or more receivers. See also transceiver, transmitter, and receiver.
See source in Computer
(1) One side of a field effect transistor. See drain.
(2) (The Source) An online information service in McLean, VA, launched in 1979 and purchased by CompuServe in 1989.