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Address may refer to—

1. the location of an individual or organization. Different nations use different addressing schemes; see
   • Zipcode (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 registerIn computing, a hardware register is a storage area for hardware I/O (input/output) of different kinds. The hardware register is contained within a certain peripheral unit, and presented to the central processing unit of the computer by means of memory-ma, a particular part of storageStorage is the at least semi-permanent holding of an amount of something. A storage device is an apparatus for holding things. Another general term, is container. Depending on context it may have a more specific meaning. A tank is a container for liquid,, or some other data source or destination. For computers, the term invariably refers to memory addressIn computer science, a memory address is a unique identifier for a memory location at which a CPU or other device can store a piece of data for later retrieval. In modern byte-addressable computers, each address identifies a single byte of storage; data tes.
4. the part of a selection signalA signal may refer to: an abstract element of information, or, more exactly, usually a flow of information (in either one or several dimensions). See Signal (information theory . in electronics) a signal is any physical phenomenon that can be modeled as a that indicates the destination of a callIn computer science and telecommunications, calling is: # Any attempt to set up a communications circuit. A unit of traffic measurement. The actions performed by a call originator. The operations required to establish, maintain, and release a connection..