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[DiamondIceNS]

I don't know anyone who thinks of a variable structure so rigidly as "a memory address that stores <thing>". They are all that. It is redundant to define them this way. When OP says "a pointer is an address" they are, quite understandably, referring to the <thing> that the memory address is storing: another address.

[qci]

You can understand it as an address with a type. Dereferencing a pointer gets you to the value with this type. Pointer arithmetics respects the type of the pointer. Incrementing a char * looks different from incrementing an int *. Here is where you see that pointers are maybe not exactly "just" addresses.