addressing

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

addressing

1. Present participle 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 one's 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

Translations

the process of placing an address on something

• Portuguese: endereçamento m

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• Danish: adressering
• Finnish: viittaus (fi)
• French: adressage (fr)
• German: Adressierung

• Icelandic: viðfenging
• Norwegian: adressering
• Swedish: adressering c