physical address

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physical address - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  physical address
  physical memory address
  
     <memory management> The address presented to a computer's main
     memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the
     virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU.
     A memory management unit translates virtual addresses into
     physical addresses.
  
     (1995-03-31)