address generation


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address generation

[′ad·res ‚jen·ə′rā·shən]
(computer science)
An addressing technique which facilitates addressing large storages and implementing dynamic program relocation; the effective main storage address is obtained by adding together the contents of the base register of the index register and of the displacement field.
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