If both the person posting bail and the defendant are in court, cash bail can be posted in the courthouse, and the defendant can be released before being transferred to jail.
reference point - an indicator that orients you generally; it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved. point of reference, reference. bench mark, benchmark - a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point. landmark - a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land.
(November 2009) In computer science, a reference is a value that enables a program to indirectly access a particular data, such as a variable or a record, in the computer's memory or in some other storage device. The reference is said to refer to the datum, and accessing the datum is called dereferencing the reference.