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direct address
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direct address [də¦rekt ′a‚dres]
(computer science)
Any address specifying the location of an operand.
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The examples cited in (10a,b, c) show that /-o/ can substitute /-e/ only in the context of low open back vowel /aa/ immediately preceding it but when high, close, front vowel /i/ or high close back vowel /u/ precedes the vocative case ending, /-o/ can't substitute it.
Case markers in the Chhathare Limbu by Tumbahang, Govinda B. / Contributions to Nepalese Studies
Its vocative case is plural, its homes, as in 'The Mud Room', at once precarious and capacious.
'Altering the past': Northern Irish poetry and modern canons by Longley, Edna / Yearbook of English Studies
Instead of using the vocative case of her husband's first name, "Wiktorze", Mrs.
The poetics of grammar as challenge and chance in literary ... by Schultze, Brigitte / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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