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title: Reference
slug: Glossary/Reference
tags:
  - CodingScripting
  - Glossary
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In the context of **{{glossary("object","objects")}}**, this is an **{{glossary("object reference")}}**. On MDN, we could be talking about the {{glossary("JavaScript")}} reference itself.

In computing, a reference is a value that indirectly accesses data to retrieve a variable or a record in a computer's memory or other storage device.

## See also

- {{Interwiki("wikipedia", "Reference (computer science)")}} on Wikipedia
