n information | Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted
n (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
n (context|academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
n (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
n (programming|character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page such as ™ or €.