addressing

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ədrĕsʹĭŋ, IPA^(key): /əˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ
• Hyphenation: ad‧dress‧ing

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Verb

addressing

1. present participle and gerund of address

Noun

addressing (usually uncountable, plural addressings)

1. A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
2. (computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
3. (linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct speech to an audience.
   • 2010, R. S. Perinbanayagam, Discursive acts: language, signs, and selves, page 118:

     Just as a social inferior should not adopt a domineering structure of words and addressings, so a social superior must manage to inject just the right degree of condescension into his or her locutions

Derived terms

• dynamic IP addressing
• multiaddressing

 

Translations

the process of placing an address on something

• Finnish: osoitteen määrittäminen
• French: adressage (fr) m
• Polish: adresografia f, adresowanie (pl) n, adresacja f
• Portuguese: endereçamento (pt) m

any of several methods of locating and accessing information

• Esperanto: adresado, adresadmaniero
• Finnish: osoitus (fi), viittaus (fi)
• Polish: adresografia f, adresacja f

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Translations to be checked

• Danish: adressering
• French: adressage (fr)
• German: Adressierung
• Icelandic: viðfenging
• Norwegian: adressering
• Swedish: adressering (sv) c

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