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{{Quote|[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]].<ref>[[Wiki.GIS.com]], GIS Glossary ([http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/GIS_Glossary full-text]).</ref>}} |
{{Quote|[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]].<ref>[[Wiki.GIS.com]], GIS Glossary ([http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/GIS_Glossary full-text]).</ref>}} |
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=== Information technology === |
=== Information technology === |
Latest revision as of 10:28, 4 July 2015
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] | ” |
An address is a value that identifies a location.
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).