{
  "id": "address.location",
  "term": "address",
  "sense": "location",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "address",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a name that points to a place where a thing can be put",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "name.identifier",
      "points.location",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the name and the point together indicate a specific location for putting something",
    "novel_properties": [
      "identifier for location",
      "standardized format",
      "enables locating"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The postal code E16 1AA points to a specific building in London, enabling mail delivery.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The IP address 8.8.8.8 routes data packets to a Google DNS server in Mountain View.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The cadastral lot number 12-3-456 identifies a parcel of land in Saskatchewan's public registry.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "name.identifier",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "put.placement",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "address",
    "addressed",
    "addresses",
    "addressing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-address.location"
}