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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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Full-year guidance remained unchanged, and the company’s outlook for optical and IP networks next year is more positive than Inderes expected.

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

One employee had been working and living in Idaho since late 2020 without disclosing that information to the agency, according to IP address records examined by the state auditor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

“You’ve got to be careful. They can trace your IP address.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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