Addressing is the process of determining the next network hop to jump to.
This can be visualised by running traceroute:
traceroute google.com
traceroute to google.com (142.251.211.238), 64 hops max
1 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 1.774ms 104.766ms 3.077ms
2 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 6.823ms 3.086ms 7.370ms
3 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 5.812ms 5.779ms 5.409ms
4 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 9.143ms 8.665ms 8.401ms
5 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 11.137ms 10.538ms 10.456ms
6 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 14.092ms 15.286ms 13.024ms
7 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 15.759ms 16.233ms 12.949ms
8 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 13.007ms 13.036ms 13.611ms
9 142.251.211.238 13.677ms 12.065ms 11.839ms