absolute address

Each piece of data or program instruction is stored separately in the computer's memory and it is located by its address. The address is the number for the position of a word of storage in the main memory. This number is used by a program as the identification of a particular memory location, which may contain a data item or the next instruction, when a machine-code program is branching. If the address is the real address used by the internal electronics of the computer, it is known as the absolute address.

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