Physical address

In computing, a physical address (also real address, or binary address), is a memory address that is represented in the form of a binary number on the address bus circuitry in order to enable the data bus to access a particular storage cell of main memory, or a register of memory-mapped I/O device.

This article is about computer memory addressing. For the meaning in networking, see MAC address. For addresses of physical locations, see Address.
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