direct address

noun

Grammar. the use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person; use of a vocative form.
Computers. indirect address

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Deen concluded her appearance with a bizarre, maybe ill-advised but definitely bold direct address to camera.

Apostrophe is a direct address to the absent as present, the inanimate as living, or the abstract as personal.

Many Christians of our own day, perhaps the majority, regard the true hymn as a prayer offered in direct address to God.

As the lifting of the embargo on speech was not known to him, she knew herself to be insured against direct address.

This direct address seemed to have the desired effect, for the man stood aside.

The tendency is more and more to eliminate them except in the second person (direct address).

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