Address
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Address may refer to:
- Address (geography)Address (geography)An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used for describing the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or...
, a code and abstract concept expressing a location on the Earth's surface (include also Postal address)... - Public speakingPublic speakingPublic speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners...
- Style (manner of address)Style (manner of address)A style of office, or honorific, is a legal, official, or recognized title. A style, by tradition or law, precedes a reference to a person who holds a post or political office, and is sometimes used to refer to the office itself. An honorific can also be awarded to an individual in a personal...
, honorifics - In computing and telecommunication:
- Network address (disambiguation), various meanings
- An e-mail addressE-mail addressAn email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered. An example format of an email address is lewis@example.net which is read as lewis at example dot net...
, which identifies an Internet location that can receive e-mail - A memory addressMemory addressA digital computer's memory, more specifically main memory, consists of many memory locations, each having a memory address, a number, analogous to a street address, at which computer programs store and retrieve, machine code or data. Most application programs do not directly read and write to...
, a unique identifier for a memory location at which a computer can write or read- More specifically, a physical addressPhysical addressIn computing, a physical address, also real address, or binary address, is the memory address that is represented in the form of a binary number on the address bus circuitry in order to enable the data bus to access a particular storage cell of main memory.In a computer with virtual memory, the...
in some storage device or computing system - Address spaceAddress spaceIn computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host, peripheral device, disk sector, a memory cell or other logical or physical entity.- Overview :...
, a range of discrete memory addresses
- More specifically, a physical address
- Addressability, the ability of a digital device to individually respond to a message sent to many similar devices
- The part of a selection Signalling (telecommunications)Signalling (telecommunications)In telecommunication, signaling has the following meanings:*the use of signals for controlling communications...
that indicates the destination of a call