The phrase "acting as a reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or something that serves as a source of information or guidance.
Example: "In this report, the previous study is acting as a reference for our findings."
Alternatives: "serving as a reference" or "functioning as a reference".
Mr. Torricelli continued to do political favors for Mr. Chang, acting as a reference with important business contacts and helping him to meet with Clinton administration officials.
This leads to a "To" state acting as a reference for the future monitoring during production.
Setting: A rehabilitation center acting as a reference for cardiology clinics lacking this facility.
Measurement principles of the device are based on the evaluation of the position from the phase difference of two signals where one of them is generated by a non-movable photodiode, acting as a reference source, and the other one is attached to the moveable part of the technological machine.
The plot of "House of Whacks" is based on the science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, with Ultrahouse acting as a reference to HAL 9000, the antagonist of the film.
The protocol used for measurements of the dielectric properties of the antibiotic-treated model systems was as follows: One chamber of the cassette was manually filled with a bacterial suspension containing antibiotic or no antibiotic, while the other chamber, acting as a reference, was filled with sterile medium only.
For timing jitter and detection efficiency, we used a pulsed reference laser at 690 nm wavelength, with an Excelitas SLiK acting as a calibrated reference to determine the absolute efficiency.
Utilization of this database can improve the data reliability by acting as a design reference.
However, since anatomical details are lacking in these images, conventional T1- and T2-weighted sequences remain indispensable in acting as an anatomical reference for the DWIBS images, therefore adding another acquisition time to the entire MR examination.
To prevent the initial cursor position from acting as a confounding spatial reference, it was always shown at the position of the dot that served as a reference for reproducing the distance.
When a nucleosome is remodeled by ISW1a (left), nucleosome repositioning is blocked by a bound TF, the TF remains intact, and the remodeled nucleosome is positioned with the TF acting as a boundary and reference point.
