what is 'address in terminal'

[kaykav]

good morning,
I read an article about using 'ssh'. They used a term of which I'm not familiar. What is meant by 'address in terminal'? The sentence is:
( Mary has a laptop machine she is the sole user of. Her username is mary and she has called her computer "laptop" her address is shown as mary@laptop in the terminal (bash)).
Thank you

[chipps61]

When you open a terminal window in most distributions of Linux (including Mint), it's just a part of the prompt that comes up. My username is "chip" and I named my PC "LAPTOP", so the prompt that shows in the terminal looks like: "chip@LAPTOP ~ $ _". It's nothing more than a notification of who's logged on and what machine name you're using.

[kaykav]

thank you for your explanation......now I can continue my reading......

[Biker]

The address is used when using ssh to log into another machine. For example, let's say I need to do some server work as root, so I'll log into the machine by typing:

ssh root@machine_name.domain.com