In brief, address is referred to where a person lives. But in wider description, it is an identification not only for location of houses, but also businesses, buildings, or even information in internet and other network, which has certain schemes or systems, such as naming, numbering and coding.
On business cards, postal address is usually printed, maybe there's additional information of website and email address too. Postal address can be home or office address, to where people can send mail or package. Depending on which country a person lives in, address has various written formats.
These all have different functions. Postal address could represent social status of someone, but most importantly it identifies how a client, a friend, a relative and other people can keep in touch with him/her. Maybe they will need to send snail mail or parcel. Or a short message will be enough to be delivered via email. And a client may only need to visit the website address for his/her business.
Address is also used as parameter in statistic need. Street naming, house numbering and zip coding system is different from one country to another. Main streets could be named after famous people or historical events. Sometimes the city itself becomes street name. In UK/Ireland, mainly in small towns, house name replaces house number, e.g. Norfolk House, Belvoir Castle, and Castle Droge. House numbering was firstly introduced in Paris in 15th century. The scheme varies in different countries and even in different cities by color and style. For example, in Florence black numbers are for houses, and red numbers are for businesses. Many cities in North America use block numbers and addresses are based on Cartesian Coordinate System.
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