Base Address

In computing, a base address is an address serving as a reference point ("base") for other addresses.

In computers using relative addressing scheme, to obtain an absolute address, the relevant base address is taken and offset (aka displacement) is added to it.

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or address:

    “For those who are base in judgement do not know the good they hold in their hands until they cast it off.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.”
    —Adam Smith (1723–1790)