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Revision as of 03:33, 12 April 2014
Definitions
General
An address is
“ | [a] designation of the location of a person's residence or workplace, an organization, or a building, consisting of numerical and text elements such as a street number, street name, and city arranged in a particular format.[1] | ” |
Information technology
An address is
- A character or group of characters that identifies a register, a particular part of storage, or some other data source or destination.
- A label that is assigned to a device or item of data to identify its location.
Internet
“ | There are three types of addresses in common use within the Internet. They are email address; IP, internet or Internet address; and hardware or MAC address.[2] | ” |
Telecommunications
An address is the coded representation of the source or destination of a message.
References
- ↑ Wiki.GIS.com, GIS Glossary (full-text).
- ↑ RFC 1392, Internet Glossary (Jan. 1993).
See also
- Address Supporting Organization
- Address bar
- Address book
- Address data
- Address address data format
- Address field
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