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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Petrie-Morris announced that Fairground’s first products would riff on beloved public domain characters—Robin Hood, etc.—and then hopefully earn access to established IP through studio partnerships.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026

“Each of SPGI’s benchmark franchises is a high-margin, IP licensing business with a formidable competitive moat inside an oligopolistic market structure,” the Pershing Square letter observed.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

“As our data flows through the model ecosystem, we just want to make sure that it is safe and secure from a security standpoint, but also an IP standpoint,” Markus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The threat at the Pasadena hospital was received from an IP address at 5:40 a.m., prompting police officers, fire personnel and K-9 units to search the hospital, according to city spokesperson Lisa Derderian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

I always paid in cash, so my machine ID was as untraceable as my IP address, which was changing all the time.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin