Address

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up address in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Address may refer to:

• Address (geography), a code and abstract concept expressing a location on the Earth's surface (include also Postal address)...
• Public speaking
• Style (manner of address), honorifics
• In computing and telecommunication:
  • Network address (disambiguation), various meanings
  • An e-mail address, which identifies an Internet location that can receive e-mail
  • A memory address, a unique identifier for a memory location at which a computer can write or read
    • More specifically, a physical address in some storage device or computing system
    • Address space, a range of discrete memory addresses
  • 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) that indicates the destination of a call

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Noun

address (plural addresses)

1. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
2. Act of addressing oneself to a person; a discourse or speech.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, VII:

     Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.

3. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.

   a man of pleasing or insinuating address

4. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.

   Joseph Addison.

5. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
6. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
7. street location.
8. (computing) A location in computer memory.

   The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.

9. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.

Derived terms

• subaddress, subaddressing