Address

Address may refer to—

1. A name for the location of an individual or organization. Different countries use different addressing schemes, often including a numeric or alphanumeric code: 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, an integer or vector of integers (in segmented architectures) that identifies a register, a particular part of storage, or some other data source or destination. For computers, the term usually 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