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Address

1. The location of an individual or organization. Different nations use different addressing schemes: see
• ZIP Code (for the United States),
• postcode (for the United Kingdom),
• Japanese addressing system, and
• postal code (for other countries.)
2. In communications, the coded representation of the source or destination of a message (eg. IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses).
3. In data processing and computer science, a character or group of characters that identifies a register, a particular part of storage, or some other data source or destination. For computers, the term invariably refers to memory addresses.
4. The part of a selection signal that indicates the destination of a call.
5. A speech.

See also

• address space

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