Lvalue

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  lvalue
       
           A reference to a location, an expression which
          can appear as the destination of an {assignment} operator
          indicating where a value should be stored.  For example, a
          variable or an array element are lvalues but the constant 42


          and the expression i+1 are not.  A constant string may or may
          not be an lvalue (it usually is in {C}).
       
          (1995-04-28)