IP

American  

1. Intellectual Property.

2. Internet Protocol: a communications protocol for computers connected to a network, especially the internet, specifying the format for addresses and units of transmitted data.

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IP British  

abbreviation

1. internet protocol: a code used to label packets of data sent across the internet, identifying both the sending and the receiving computers

2. law intellectual property

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IP Scientific  

1. Short for Internet Protocol. A protocol that specifies the way data is broken into packets and the way those packets are addressed for transmission.

2. See more at TCP/IP

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IP

Too many musicals, particularly on Broadway, feel machine-tooled and market-tested—singing and dancing displays of familiar IP, to use today’s jargon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The use of an anonymous IP address suggests that the activity was conducted by a "threat actor", he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

While women have produced excellent recent examinations, including “Furious” and “East of Eden,” the brutal truth is that the “Friday the 13th” movies are IP recognizable to hockey-masked trick-or-treaters too young to watch them.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

The second employee’s IP address log-in data showed that the employee accessed the internet from Alabama for several months in the latter half of 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

“So, I messaged Rapid and told him that we found his IP address, and that I knew he didn’t live in the Garden,” Sonny goes on.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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