IP

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ip"

English

Etymology

Initialisms (see definitions).

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Adjective

IP (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Initialism of intraperitoneal.

Noun

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

2. (law, countable, uncountable) Initialism of intellectual property.

   In the past year, Disney has announced 4 sequels and one reboot, but not a single new IP

   • 2025 November 12, Trey Parker, “Sora Not Sorry”, in South Park, season 28, episode 3, spoken by Japanese lawyer:

     You cannot just do whatever you want with someone else's IP!

   • 2026 January 5, Stuart Heritage, “In ending, Stranger Things committed TV’s ultimate crime”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     We’re in 2026 now, and the biggest crime an entertainment corporation can commit is letting an established IP die. […] Put simply, abandon the concept of Stranger Things ending. While there’s still money to be wrung from it, that won’t be allowed to happen.

4. (law, uncountable) Initialism of Indigenous peoples.
6. (motion picture, countable) Initialism of interpositive.
8. (baseball, countable, invariant) Initialism of innings pitched (“the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher”).
10. (biology, uncountable) Initialism of immunoprecipitation.
12. (computing) Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).

    Coordinate term: cursor

14. (computing) Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register).
16. (grammar, X-bar theory) Initialism of inflectional phrase.

    Hypernym: XP

18. (medicine) Initialism of incontinentia pigmenti.
20. Initialism of instrument panel.
22. (law enforcement) Initialism of injured party.
24. (cryptography) Initialism of initial permutation.
26. (Internet) Ellipsis of IP address.
    2. (wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, metonymic) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.

       Synonym: anon

       This IP made a disruptive edit!

28. (US, military, initialism, slang) An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.
30. (US, military, slang) Initialism of Irish pennant.
32. (medicine) Abbreviation of inpatient.

    Antonym: OP

Proper noun

IP

2. (Internet, networking) Initialism of Internet Protocol.

   IP address

3. Initialism of Ingress Protection Rating.
4. Initialism of International Paper.

Derived terms

• (Internet Protocol): TCP/IP

Translations

inflectional phrase

• German: IP (de) f
• Romanian: IP (ro)

Phrase

IP

1. (prison) Initialism of in possession.
   • 2014, Linda Gask, Carolyn Chew-Graham, ABC of Anxiety and Depression, page 37:

     Prison nursing staff will carefully evaluate whether an individual should have 'IP' (in possession) medication.

See also

• IP set

Further reading

• Inflectional phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• P'i, P. I., P.I., PI, Pi, pi

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.pe/

Noun

IP (plural IP-IP)

1. (Internet) Ellipsis of IP address.
2. (education) initialism of ilmu pemerintahan
3. (education) initialism of indeks prestasi
4. (law) initialism of izin perluasan