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▪ I. addressing, vbl. n.|əˈdrɛsɪŋ|
[f. address v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of righting, preparing; acting with address or dexterity (obs.); of directing or speaking directly to. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1601Bp. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Pref. 3 The addressing my selfe to this sermon. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xvii. (1632) 362 Of addressing, dexteritie, and disposition, I never had any. 1611Cotgr., Adressement, an addressing..or setting in the nearest and readiest course. a1682in Roxb. Ballads IV. 256 With Abhorring and Adressing their time is spent. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) I. 29 Immense sumptuosities, addressings, knight-makings, ceremonial exhibitions. Mod. Blamed for wrongly addressing the letter.
b. attrib.: addressing-machine, a machine for printing addresses on newspaper-wrappers, etc.
1865U.S. Pat. 47,142 (title) Addressing-Machine..a Machine for Printing the Directions on Newspapers or Wrappers. 1953Vocab. bibliothec. (Unesco) 160/1 Addressing machine; addressograph.
2. Computing. The method or process of allocating addresses in the memory of a computer (address n. 7 c); the system for identifying or referring to locations in memory. Freq. attrib. Cf. direct addressing s.v. direct a. 7; indirect addressing s.v. indirect a. 2 a.
1957IBM Jrnl. Res. & Devel. I. 131/1 The addressing system should make the average access time..as small as possible. 1962[see indirect addressing s.v. indirect a. 2 a]. 1964T. W. McRae Impact of Computers on Accounting i. 10 Our next job is to assign an address to each word. Our addressing system is quite arbitrary. 1971J. H. Smith Digital Logic vi. 126 Each core in the plane is threaded with additional ‘read’ and ‘write’ wires which together with the ‘addressing’ co-ordinates X and Y are used to put information into and out of core memories. 1982Sci. Amer. Jan. 117/1 Instructions are coded patterns of bits that specify the operations to be done and carry addressing information for gaining access to memory. 1984Personal Software Winter 24/2 The mode 3 addressing system is based on the use of two bits to indicate the base colour to be found at each of two adjacent points.
▪ II. addressing, ppl. a.|əˈdrɛsɪŋ|
[f. address v. + ing2.]
Forming a straight line; preparing; directing; issuing an address.
1523Ld. Berners Froissart I. ccxii. 237 All Iles addressing to the landes..we helde in the tyme of the sayd treatye. 1705Perry Hist. Coll. Am. Col. Ch. I. 156 The addressing Clergy have the general favor of the people. 1773Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. II. 289 An addressing house of commons. |