In programming, the specifcaton of memory location by using an expression to calculate the address, rather than explicaitly specifying the location by using its address.

an addressing mechanism in which the address of the target location is given by the contents of a specific register and an offset held as a constant in the instruction, added together. [SILC99

linking to another page on the same website through a local address rather than a URL: for instance, a link back to the homepage might take the form A HREF=/home.htmHome page/A.

Relative addressing is a way to specify URLs from within a document that refer to other documents relative to where the original document resides. For example, if you are working from a file called index.html which exists in the directory (or folder) http://www.dartmouth.edu/Library/Info_Systems and you want to refer to a file in the staff subdirectory (or folder) of Info_Systems, a relative address would be specified as: staff/Doe/ rather than the absolute address http://www.dartmouth.edu/Library/Info_Systems/staff/Doe

an addressing mode that calculates a new address based on the position of an instruction within a program.