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Definitions of internet address:

The numbering system used in TCP/IP internetwork communications to specify a particular network or a particular host on that network with which to communicate. Internet addresses are commonly denoted in dotted decimal form.
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An assigned series of numbers unique to each computer on the Internet which is used to identify it for data exchanges.
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An assigned number which identifies a host in an internet. It has two or three parts: network number, optional subnet number, and host number.
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A unique address assigned to each machine on the Internet.
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Also known as the Ethernet or MAC address. The physical address of a node on any kind of network. A unique identifier.
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Also called an IP address. It is a 32-bit address assigned to hosts using TCP/IP. The address is written as four octets separated with periods (dotted decimal format) that are made up of a network section, an optional subnet section, and a host section.
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a numerical identifier for a node on the Internet. It consists of four numbers separated by periods, for example 35.8.220.4.
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A four-byte quantity that is distinct from a link-level address and is the network address of a computer node. This address identifies both which network is on the Internet and which host is on the network.
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The unique 32-bit address that specifies the location of each device or workstation on the Internet. For example, 9.67.97.103 is an IP address.
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A 32-bit address assigned to computers using TCP/IP. Also called IP address.
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Also known as an IP address. This is a 32-bit hardware-independent address assigned to hosts using the TCP/IP protocol suite.
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An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique number, a kind of telephone number, used by machines (usually computers) to refer to each other when sending information through the Internet. This allows machines passing the information onwards on behalf of the sender to know where to send it next, and for the machine receiving the information to know that it is the intended destination.
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