IP

See also: ip, İP, and 卭

English

Etymology

Initialism.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

IP (not comparable)

1. (medicine) intraperitoneal

Noun

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

1. (law, uncountable) intellectual property
2. (motion picture, countable) interpositive
3. (baseball, countable, invariant) The statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher.
4. (biology, uncountable) immunoprecipitation
5. (computing) insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document)
6. (computing) instruction pointer (CPU register)
7. (US, military, initialism, slang) An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.
8. (US, military, initialism, slang) An Irish pennant.
9. (grammar, X-bar theory) Inflectional phrase
10. (medicine) Initialism of incontinentia pigmenti.
11. (Internet) Ellipsis of IP address
    1. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) In wikis, an unregistered user identified by their IP address.

       Synonym: anon

       This IP made a disruptive edit!

Hypernyms

• (inflectional phrase): XP

Proper noun

IP

1. (Internet, networking) Internet Protocol
2. Ingress Protection Rating
3. International Paper
4. (cryptography) initial permutation

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

Anagrams

• P'i, P. I., P.I., PI, Pi, pi