IP
English
Etymology
Initialism.
Noun
IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)
- (law, uncountable) intellectual property
- (motion picture, countable) interpositive
- (baseball, countable, invariant) The statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher.
- (biology, uncountable) immunoprecipitation
- (computing) insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document)
- (US, military, initialism, slang) An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.
- (US, military, initialism, slang) An Irish pennant.
- (grammar, X-bar theory) Inflectional phrase
- (Internet, networking) Someone's Internet Protocol (IP) address
Hypernyms
- (inflectional phrase): XP
Proper noun
IP
- (Internet, networking) Internet Protocol
- Ingress Protection Rating
- International Paper
- (cryptography) initial permutation
Derived terms
- (Internet Protocol): TCP/IP
Phrase
IP
- (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.
- 2014, Linda Gask, Carolyn Chew-Graham, ABC of Anxiety and Depression (page 37)
See also
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