Refer or referral may refer to: *

Reference Reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to ''refer to'' the second object. It is called a '' name'' ...

, a relation of designation or linking between objects **

Word-sense disambiguation Word-sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process of identifying which sense of a word is meant in a sentence or other segment of context. In human language processing and cognition, it is usually subconscious/automatic but can often come to consc ...

, when a single term may refer to multiple meanings *

Referral marketing Referral marketing is a word-of-mouth initiative designed by a company to incentivize existing customers to introduce their family, friends and contacts to become new customers. Different to pure word-of-mouth strategies which are primarily cust ...

, to personally recommend, endorse, and pass a person to a qualified professional or service *

Referral (medicine) In medicine, referral is the transfer of care for a patient from one clinician or clinic to another by request. Tertiary care is usually done by referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel. In the field of sexually transmitted dise ...

, to transfer a patient's care from one clinician to another *

Commit (motion) A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

, a motion in parliamentary procedure *

Refer (software) refer is a program for managing bibliographic references, and citing them in troff, nroff, and groff documents. It is implemented as a preprocessor. refer was written by Mike Lesk at Bell LaboratoriesMichael Lesk. Some applications of inverte ...

, the tr-off preprocessor for citations *

Rede Ferroviária Nacional REFER, Rede Ferroviária Nacional, EP (i.e. ''National Railway Network'') was the Portuguese rail infrastructure manager. It was a state-owned company and was created to manage the Portuguese rail infrastructure, previously under control of CP, ...

, the Portuguese rail network manager *Referral, a form of

instant replay Instant replay or action replay is a video reproduction of something that recently occurred which was both shot and broadcast live. The video, having already been shown live, is replayed in order for viewers to see again and analyze what had j ...

in cricket *

Criminal referral A criminal referral or criminal recommendation is a notice to a prosecutory body, recommending criminal investigation or prosecution of one or more entities for crimes which fall into that body's jurisdiction. In the U.S. federal government, reg ...

, a document recommending investigation of crimes to the appropriate authority *

HTTP referer In HTTP, "" (a misspelling of Referrer) is an optional HTTP header field that identifies the address of the web page (i.e., the URI or IRI), from which the resource has been requested. By checking the referrer, the server providing the new web ...

, the address of the webpage of the resource which links to an internet webpage or resource

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